The first traces of the presence of hominids on Moroccan territory date back some 700,000 years. This period known as Acheulean, they found a number of tools, including the plain of Chaouia and more precisely close to the Casablanca city. Besides tools, we discovered a number of human fragments including the Thomas quarry near Casablanca (mandibles, jaws and skull fragments of Homo erectus) 13. The Mousterian period (120 000 to 40 000 years BP), the most explicit is the site of Jebel Irhoud located halfway between the cities of Marrakech and Safi and where were discovered two skulls of hominids, the tools associated with Levalloiso-Mousterian and important remains of animals now extinct.
Extending ibéromaurisienne Culture The atérienne time (60 to 40 thousand years BP14) brought its share of stalked tools found in many caves located on the Atlantic coast (Dar Soltane 2) 15. Nevertheless, this period was also marked by profound climate changes have led to an unprecedented desertification Moroccan territory and the scarcity or even disappearance of many plant and animal species. This dynamic, however, was thwarted by the natural barrier constituted by the chains of the Atlas and Rif, whether in Morocco or elsewhere in the Maghreb.
The arrival of Homo sapiens in North Africa before the Epipaleolithic has been demonstrated since Aterian industries are not the work of the Neanderthals, whose range is exclusively Eurasian, but rather of Homo sapiens having archaic features.
There are about 21 000 years, the ibéromaurusienne civilization was born. It is characterized by rather sophisticated and funeral rites by a refinement of the tools used. However, there is no question of agriculture. Cave Taforalt in the Oujda region corresponds to the largest deposit of the time. This civilization is maintained and spread throughout the Maghreb before gradually hybridise to the ninth millennium BC with populations Capsian, ancestors of the modern Berbers. The first discovered items matching this period (Neolithic) date to about 6000 years. These reflect a settlement already advanced and a relative mastery of agricultural techniques.
Extending ibéromaurisienne Culture The atérienne time (60 to 40 thousand years BP14) brought its share of stalked tools found in many caves located on the Atlantic coast (Dar Soltane 2) 15. Nevertheless, this period was also marked by profound climate changes have led to an unprecedented desertification Moroccan territory and the scarcity or even disappearance of many plant and animal species. This dynamic, however, was thwarted by the natural barrier constituted by the chains of the Atlas and Rif, whether in Morocco or elsewhere in the Maghreb.
The arrival of Homo sapiens in North Africa before the Epipaleolithic has been demonstrated since Aterian industries are not the work of the Neanderthals, whose range is exclusively Eurasian, but rather of Homo sapiens having archaic features.
There are about 21 000 years, the ibéromaurusienne civilization was born. It is characterized by rather sophisticated and funeral rites by a refinement of the tools used. However, there is no question of agriculture. Cave Taforalt in the Oujda region corresponds to the largest deposit of the time. This civilization is maintained and spread throughout the Maghreb before gradually hybridise to the ninth millennium BC with populations Capsian, ancestors of the modern Berbers. The first discovered items matching this period (Neolithic) date to about 6000 years. These reflect a settlement already advanced and a relative mastery of agricultural techniques.
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