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The Prehistoric Rock Art of Morocco: A study of its extension, environment and meaning
Susan Searight
This study aims to examine all aspects of Moroccan rock art and place it in an archaeological and environmental context. Almost 300 sites are now known but few have been studied fully. This work is the first overall analysis to be attempted. The author sets herself 9 specific objectives: 1) To present an up-to-date account of the history of research into Moroccan rock art from its beginnings in the 19th century. 2) To treat rock art as a part of integrated archaeological research. 3) To place rock art manifestations in a climatic and ecological framework. 4) To establish the distribution of rock art sites, by surveying - as far as the published material allowed - the position and contents of all known sites. 5) To find out if all sites contained the same type of engraved material. 6) To propose a tentative chronology of Moroccan rock art and provide possible dates for the sites. 7) To interpret the engraved images as a "medium of communication". One line of research in this direction was the localisation of this art in the landscape and its relationship to the local topography as a form of sign-posting. 8) To investigate the possible symbolic content of the images. 9) To insert rock art into the tissue of Neolithic and later life, in so far as it is known, in order to ascertain its place in the "production process" of the Neolithic and later populations of Morocco.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Abstract
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List of Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Tables
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Foreword
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INTRODUCTION
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PART I - THE SETTING
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CHAPTER 1. AIMS AND METHODS
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CHAPTER 2. PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON MOROCCAN ROCK ART
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CHAPTER 3. HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND FLORA
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CHAPTER 4. AN OUTLINE OF THE PREHISTORY OF MOROCCO
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CHAPTER 5. NEOLITHIC AND LATER FAUNA AS REVEALED BY EXCAVATION AND TEXTS
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PART II - THE ROCK ART
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CHAPTER 6. THEMES REPRESENTED IN MOROCCAN ROCK ART
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CHAPTER 7. REVIEW OF MOROCCAN ROCK ART SITES
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CHAPTER 8. DETAILED STUDIES OF FOUR ROCK ART SITES
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CHAPTER 9. EXTENT OF MOROCCAN ROCK ART, IDENTIFICATION OF DISTINCT TYPES OF ENGRAVINGS, CLASSIFICATION OF SITES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION
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PART III - INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION
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CHAPTER 10. ELEMENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ROCK ART
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CHAPTER 11. CHRONOLOGY ADOPTED IN THE PRESENT STUDY, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
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CHAPTER 12. THE ROCK ART SITES: THEIR PLACE IN THE LANDSCAPE AND AN INTERPRETATION OF THEIR CONTENTS
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CHAPTER 13. THE ROCK ART OF MOROCCO IN A NORTH-WEST AFRICAN CONTEXT
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CHAPTER 14. ROCK ART, EXCAVATION AND ENVIRONMENT
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CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY OF THE STUDY
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APPENDIX 1. ZONAL DIVISION OF MOROCCO
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APPENDIX 2. TERMINOLOGY USED IN THE PRESENT WORK
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APPENDIX 3. ARID AND HUMID CYCLES IN THE SAHARA AND NORTHERN AFRICA
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APPENDIX 4. LATIN AND ENGLISH NAMES FOR THE FLORA QUOTED
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APPENDIX 5. PUBLISHED EPIPALAEOLITHIC SITES
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APPENDIX 6. COMMON AND LATIN NAMES OF THE FAUNA QUOTED, DISCUSSION ON THE STATUS OF EQUUS, AND NOTES ON THE ANIMALS AND EXCAVATIONS
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APPENDIX 7. TIZI n’TIFINA ENGRAVINGS
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APPENDIX 8. ADRAR n’METGOURINE: INVENTORY OF ENGRAVINGS
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APPENDIX 9. OUM EL ALEG: INVENTORY OF ENGRAVINGS
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APPENDIX 10. DETAILS OF SITES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO GROUP, NON-CLASSIFIED AND LACKING DATA
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APPENDIX 11. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ROCK ART SITES
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GLOSSARY OF THE ARABIC AND BERBER WORDS USED IN THE TEXT
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Published: 2004
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407327365 (ebook)
- 9781841716596 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1310