Principaux types de tumulus marocains

Souville, Georges

doi:10.3406/bspf.1959.3588

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“…Foum Larjam and the river terraces to the south was one of these areas (Figure 3b). Thousands of Iron Age funerary monuments have been identified on the slopes of the jebel and surrounding hamada (themselves built over an earlier prehistoric burial landscape) and a number of enclosures and offering structures not attested elsewhere in the Draa (Jacques- Meunié 1958;Souville 1959). Four hilltop sites, LAR002 and © Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2022 2020).…”

Section: Late Iron Agementioning

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Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara

Fenwick

Sterry

Mattingly

et al. 2022

JIA

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Modern scholarship on the medieval Sahara has focused on a handful of famous entrepôt sites that have their origins in the 8th century or later, and as a result we still understand very poorly the nature and extent of Saharan oasis settlement and agriculture in the golden age of Saharan trade. This article presents the first securely dated chronology for oasis development in the north-west Sahara based on three seasons of archaeological survey and a comprehensive radiocarbon dating programme in the Wadi Draa, Morocco. The Draa Valley contains some of the largest, most populous and most productive oases in the Sahara, as well as serving as an important travel corridor for trading caravans coming from West Africa to access the Atlas passes and reach Marrakech. Focusing on evidence from a large zone of abandoned oases on the Kasr Bounou Plain, this article demonstrates that while oasis agriculture and settlement was taking place between the 4th–8th centuries—well before the Muslim conquest of Morocco—there was a significant increase in settlement and agricultural exploitation from the 9th century. This phenomenon is marked by the appearance of substantial mudbrick settlements, along with irrigation and field systems, and is coterminous with the development of the medieval trading entrepôt of Sijilmasa. A settlement boom and significant investment in irrigated oasis agriculture occurred between the 11th and 13th centuries, contemporary with Almoravid and Almohad rule of the Draa, followed by a retraction and abandonment of much of the oasis by the 16th century. The new evidence from the Draa challenges the long-held belief that sedentarization and irrigated oasis agriculture were unique to the medieval period in the north-west Sahara. OPEN ACCESS CC BY-NC-ND

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Section: Late Iron Agementioning

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Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara

Fenwick

Sterry

Mattingly

et al. 2022

JIA

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“…Morocco hosts numerous archaeological relics, such as ruins of ancient roman cities in the northern part of the country, and funerary mounds (also called tumuli), rocks engravings, ceramics and paintings (Belmonte et al, 1999;Brooks et al, 2009;Nami, 2008;Souville, 1959, andNami et al, 2012). The available literature on prehistoric funerary monuments emphasizes that most of such sites are located south of the High Atlas, especially in the pre-Saharan and the Saharan zones (Bokbot, 2000).…”

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Remote-sensing data-based Archaeological Predictive Model (APM) for archaeological site mapping in desert area, South Morocco

Nsanziyera

Lechgar

Fal

et al. 2018

Comptes Rendus. Géoscience

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“…409 SOUVILLE 1958409 SOUVILLE -1959 Sfortunatamente non sono state riportate le indicazioni cardinali e non è neanche stato possibile ricostruirle. 411 Probabilmente la credenza prevedeva l'amputazione dei piedi per impedire al morto di muoversi e tornare nel villaggio: SOUVILLE 1958SOUVILLE -1959 Rulhmann identificò tre strutture e le nominò: Oued Beth, Halabadu e Dchira; sono pubblicate in RULHMANN 1936.…”

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Le tecnologie applicate allo studio delle risorse minerarie nel Marocco centrale pre-romano

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This work aims to bring new elements for a more current interpretation of the ancient economic processes of Morocco from proto-history to the pre-Roman era. This study was carried out through the analysis of numerous remains of pyrometallurgical processing, found near the mining areas and focused on contexts unrelated to the area traditionally considered to be of Punic influence. The research project therefore utilized information collected on the basis of new archaeological investigation perspectives with the contribution of data obtained by using scientific technologies applied to the chemical and physical analyses on residual materials related with archaeometallurgical activities. This study takes in consideration either slag coming from the prospected ancient mines, both analytical data reported in the bibliography concerning metal artefacts of Punic production and imitation, found in the sites near the considered mining areas. The samples have been analysed by scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersion microanalysis (SEM-EDS), by X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and by micro-Raman spectroscopy. The articulation of archaeological data lead to experiment for the first time, through a GIS processing, the possibility of connecting in a georeferenced system all the topographical registration information of the archaeological records to those derived from the analytical results. The integration of archaeological, scientific and territorial data has allowed a knowledge of economic practices in pre-Roman times totally new with respect to the theories in force, giving a concrete evidence and a relevant value to the importance of the autochthonous component before, during and after. the contribution of Punic culture.

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Principaux types de tumulus marocains

Cited by 11 publications

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Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara

Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara

Remote-sensing data-based Archaeological Predictive Model (APM) for archaeological site mapping in desert area, South Morocco

Le tecnologie applicate allo studio delle risorse minerarie nel Marocco centrale pre-romano

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