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DOI	10.1163/21915784-BJA10008
	Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco
	Bokbot, Youssef; Fenwick, Corisande; Mattingly, David J.; Sheldrick, Nichole; Sterry, Martin
通讯作者	Mattingly, DJ (corresponding author), Univ Leicester, Sch Archaeol & Ancient Hist, Univ Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	1612-1651
EISSN	2191-5784
出版年	2021
卷号	19 期号:2 页码:159-186
英文摘要	The article presents important results from the Middle Draa Project (MDP) in southern Morocco related to two mid-1st millennium CE hilltop settlements (hillforts) that were associated with significant rock art assemblages. The combination of detailed survey and radiocarbon dating of these remarkable sites provides a unique window on the Saharan world in which the pecked engravings, predominantly of horses, were produced. As the horse imagery featured on the walls of buildings within the settlement, the radiocarbon dating around the mid-1st millennium CE can also be applied in this instance to the rock art. The rarity of rock art of this period within habitation sites is also discussed and it is argued that its occurrence at both these locations indicates that they had some special social or sacred significance for their occupants. While it is commonplace for rock art of this era, featuring horses and camels, to be attributed by modern scholars to mobile pastoralists, a further argument of the paper is that the desert societies were in a period of transformation at this time, with the development of oases. The association of the rock art imagery with sedentary settlements, where grain was certainly being processed and stored, is thus an additional new element of contextual information for the widespread Saharan images of horses and horse and riders.
英文关键词	hillforts horse imagery Iron Age rock art Wadi Draa Morocco
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, hybrid
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000722025500001
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374204
作者单位	[Bokbot, Youssef] Inst Natl Sci Archeol & Patrimoine INSAP, Angle Rues 5 & 7,Ave Allal,El Fassi,Hay Riad BP 6, Rabat, Morocco; [Fenwick, Corisande] UCL, Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England; [Mattingly, David J.; Sheldrick, Nichole; Sterry, Martin] Univ Leicester, Sch Archaeol & Ancient Hist, Univ Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bokbot, Youssef,Fenwick, Corisande,Mattingly, David J.,et al. Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco[J],2021,19(2):159-186.
APA	Bokbot, Youssef,Fenwick, Corisande,Mattingly, David J.,Sheldrick, Nichole,&Sterry, Martin.(2021).Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco.JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY,19(2),159-186.
MLA	Bokbot, Youssef,et al."Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco".JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 19.2(2021):159-186.