Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

LG Simões, T Günther, RM Martínez-Sánchez… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400
years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support …

Impact of farming on African landscapes

DK Wright - The Anthropocene Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As the continent with the deepest record of human history, the relationship between
landscape formation and human subsistence practices is inseparable. The activities that …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–1000 BC: An interpretative synthesis of knowns and unknowns

C Broodbank, G Lucarini - Journal of Mediterranean …, 2019 - journal.equinoxpub.com
Mediterranean Africa forms a crucial junction between the wider Saharan zone and the rest
of the Mediterranean. In contrast to its well-investigated history from the first millennium BC …

Understanding the genomic heterogeneity of North African Imazighen: from broad to microgeographical perspectives

L Vilà-Valls, A Abdeli, M Lucas-Sánchez, A Bekada… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The strategic location of North Africa has led to cultural and demographic shifts, shaping its
genetic structure. Historical migrations brought different genetic components that are evident …

Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory

C Broodbank, G Lucarini, Y Bokbot, H Benattia… - Antiquity, 2024 - cambridge.org
The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in
connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet …

The origin of sheep settlement in Western Mediterranean

A Kandoussi, I Boujenane, C Auger, B Serranito… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The arrival of Neolithic culture in North Africa, especially domestic animals has been
essentially documented from archaeological records. As the data relative to sheep are …

The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies

E Vijande-Vila, JJ Cantillo-Duarte… - African Archaeological …, 2019 - Springer
This study presents the results of the archaeological investigation in Benzú Cave, located on
the North African shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. The archaeological deposits, approximately …

Revisiting the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition in the extreme NW of Africa: the latest results of the chronological sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan …

RM Martínez Sánchez, JC Vera-Rodríguez… - African Archaeological …, 2021 - Springer
This study focuses on the chronostratigraphic sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Dar
Ben Karrich, Tétouan, Morocco) excavated in 2012 in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED …

[HTML][HTML] Phytolith analyses from Khil and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Western Maghreb): Plant use trajectories in a long-term perspective

C Lancelotti, RMM Sánchez, JCV Rodríguez… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we present the results of phytolith investigations at two archaeological sites in
northwestern Morocco: Khil (Tangier) and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan). The two sites located …

Late glacial–postglacial North African landscape and forest management: Palynological and anthracological studies in the caves of Kaf Taht el-Ghar and El Khil …

M Ruiz-Alonso, D Abel-Schaad, JA López-Sáez… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work presents the anthracological and archeopalynological results obtained within the
project AGRIWESTMED (ERC AdG 230561), which has involved a comprehensive retrieval …