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Oued Beht: The Great Farming Settlement Above a Moroccan River
home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Oued Beht is in northwestern Morocco, in Khémisset Province, on the Zemmour Plateau, between the Atlantic coast and the Middle Atlas. The archaeological site occupies a long limestone, marl and conglomerate ridge at approximately 170–210 m above sea level,…
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Ifri n’Amr o’Moussa: A Neolithic Cave in Morocco’s Oued Beht Landscape
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Ifri n’Amr o’Moussa is a prehistoric cave in Morocco’s Zemmour Plateau, in the Oued Beht basin of Khémisset Province. The cave is important because it preserves evidence for a long transition from earlier hunter-gatherer lifeways toward the farming, herding…
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How a natural rock shelter accumulated thousands of years of human activity without becoming a conventional built village. Ifri Oudadane, Morocco: A Neolithic Settlement Between the Sea, Mountains & the First Farms
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Ifri Oudadane is one of the most important sites for understanding how North Africa became Neolithic. It is particularly interesting for Neolithic Architecture because it does not begin as a farming village with rows of houses. Instead, it is…