Previously Unknown Neolithic Society Discovered in Morocco, Fills Gap
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Previously-Unknown-Neolithic.jpg?itok=H9Tpcjiy"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Previously-Unknown-Neolithic.jpg?itok=H9Tpcjiy" width="610" height="364" alt="Aerial photograph of the Oued Beht ridge and river, highlighted in color. " /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Researchers in Morocco have unearthed the remains of the earliest known farming society in northwest Africa, dating back to the Final Neolithic period, around 3400-2900 BC. It is the earliest and largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa outside of the Nile region, and shares features with similarly aged sites in Iberia.</p>
<p>This study, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/oued-beht-morocco-a-complex-early-farming-society-in-northwest-africa-and-its-implications-for-western-mediterranean-interaction-during-later-prehistory/D4C36054F6B0D2D3FB4F0A0FE9BCE6C0" rel="nofollow">published in
Antiquity,[/url] reveals for the first time the importance of the Maghreb (northwest Africa) in the emergence of complex societies in the wider Mediterranean.</p>
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<p align="center"><img alt="Stone tools from Oued Beht: a & b) lower grinding stones; c) upper grinder reused as anvil. " class="media-image" height="550" style="width: 610px; height: 550px;" width="610" typeof="foaf:Image" src="
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