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Evolutionary Insights by Anthropology.netAncient Memory in Stone: Burial, Belief, and Crossroads in Prehistoric Tangierhe Tangier Peninsula sits at a geologic and cultural hinge. On maps, it's a narrow wedge of land pressing into the Strait of Gibraltar, with Europe just a short ferry ride to the north. But from 3000 to 500 BCE, this peninsula was more than a waystation. It was a ritual landscape shaped by the living and the dead.Recent archaeological work—led by Hamza Benattia, Jorge Onrubia-Pintado, and Youssef Bokbot—has brought the peninsula's past into sharper focus. Their excavations and GIS analysis reveal a once-thriving landscape of cemeteries, painted rock shelters, and standing stones, challenging long-standing assumptions abou...2025-05-1829 min
Evolutionary Insights by Anthropology.netAncient Crossroads: How Burial Monuments and Rock Art Reveal a Forgotten Ritual Landscape in the Tangier PeninsulaReconsidering the Prehistoric Dead of Northwest AfricaFor decades, the prehistoric heritage of North Africa has lived in the shadow of its pharaonic and Roman successors. The sands of Egypt and ruins of Carthage dominate popular and scholarly imagination alike. But what if we turned west, to the windswept ridges and limestone caves of the Tangier Peninsula, where ancient communities carved their beliefs into rock, built cemeteries atop hills, and placed standing stones in deliberate alignment with terrestrial crossroads?Recent work by Hamza Benattia, Jorge Onrubia-Pintado, and Youssef Bokbot sheds new light on the complex...2025-05-1519 min
Radio Maarif - Le podcast marocain#367 - Histoire : Notre néolithiqueLes découvertes récentes de Oued Baht, près de Khemisset, et de son vaste complexe agricole ont offert un éclairage nouveau sur le néolithique marocain. Le professeur Youssef Bokbot nous explique pourquoi.Produit avec le soutien de Maroc Telecom.2025-02-2054 min
Protecting the Past 3: Documentation as a Tool for Heritage ProtectionLe patrimoine en danger au Maroc, cas precis et mesures a prendreSalima Naji and Youssef Bokbot (Institut National des Sciences de l'Archeologie et du Patrimoine, Morocco) give a talk for the first panel on the third day of the conference; Protecting the past: identifying problems and solutions. Moroccan archaeological heritage despite its richness and great diversity, lives under the permanent constraint of destruction and disappearance. This phenomenon of dilapidation of archaeological sites and movable objects has seen in recent decades, a catastrophic upsurge in the Saharan and Pre-Saharan areas.
This phenomenon, which began timidly in the 70s of the last century, galloped from the 80s, to cause irreversible damage, especially in...2018-01-0822 min