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SUMMARY:Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics o
 f Mediterranean Africa - Professor Cyprian Broodbank\, University of Cambr
 idge
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CONTACT:Dr Gonzalo J. Linares Matás
DESCRIPTION:The later prehistory of Mediterranean Africa west of Egypt has
  long been a blind-spot both in Mediterranean and much of African archaeol
 ogy. This is particularly true of the last few millennia BCE\, prior to Ph
 oenician and Greek activity\, when it appears at odds with the rich eviden
 ce for dramatic social change elsewhere in the Copper to Bronze Age Medite
 rranean\, as well as along the Nile. Recent analyses\, moreover\, have hig
 hlighted the variability and potential dynamism of this region's social tr
 ajectories over this same timespan. Particularly promising is the northwes
 tern Maghreb\, a fully Mediterranean environment closely comparable to Ibe
 ria and other regions to the north of the sea. New fieldwork by a collabor
 ative British-Italian-Moroccan team at the Moroccan site of Oued Beht has 
 now identified evidence for a large scale agriculturally-based society tha
 t flourished between ca. 3400 and 2900 BC (and probably a couple of centur
 ies on either side)\, with indications of close contacts both with souther
 n Iberia and the Sahara. Given the early stage of investigation\, many asp
 ects of the site's interpretation remain provisional and subject to ongoin
 g fieldwork and analysis\, but already the outline of a new set of approac
 hes to Maghrebian later prehistory can be advocated.\n\nTeams link: https:
 //teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ap30TR_XT0paZImn_9u48xGmQW632DVb_5
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LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
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