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DOI	10.1558/jia.20440
	A Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700-1500 AD)
	Fenwick, Corisande; Sterry, Martin; Mattingly, David J.; Rayne, Louise; Bokbot, Youssef
通讯作者	Fenwick, C (corresponding author)，UCL, London, England.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	2051-9710
EISSN	2051-9729
出版年	2021
卷号	8 期号:2
英文摘要	Modern scholarship on the medieval Sahara has focused on a handful of famous entrepot sites that have their origins in the 8th century or later, and as a result we still understand very poorly the nature and extent of Saharan oasis settlement and agriculture in the golden age of Saharan trade. This article presents the first securely dated chronology for oasis development in the north-west Sahara based on three seasons of archaeological survey and a comprehensive radiocarbon dating programme in the Wadi Draa, Morocco. The Draa Valley contains some of the largest, most populous and most productive oases in the Sahara, as well as serving as an important travel corridor for trading caravans coming from West Africa to access the Atlas passes and reach Marrakech. Focusing on evidence from a large zone of abandoned oases on the Kasr Bounou Plain, this article demonstrates that while oasis agriculture and settlement was taking place between the 4th-8th centuries-well before the Muslim conquest of Morocco-there was a significant increase in settlement and agricultural exploitation from the 9th century. This phenomenon is marked by the appearance of substantial mudbrick settlements, along with irrigation and field systems, and is coterminous with the development of the medieval trading entrepot of Sijilmasa. A settlement boom and significant investment in irrigated oasis agriculture occurred between the 11th and 13th centuries, contemporary with Almoravid and Almohad rule of the Draa, followed by a retraction and abandonment of much of the oasis by the 16th century. The new evidence from the Draa challenges the long-held belief that sedentarization and irrigated oasis agriculture were unique to the medieval period in the north-west Sahara.
英文关键词	Medieval Sahara Islamic North Africa landscape archaeology oasis agriculture Morocco
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, hybrid
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000756974100001
WOS关键词	SIJILMASSA
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/2XILL650/376116
作者单位	[Fenwick, Corisande] UCL, London, England; [Sterry, Martin; Mattingly, David J.] Univ Leicester, Leicester, Leics, England; [Rayne, Louise] Newcastle Univ, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England; [Bokbot, Youssef] Inst Natl Sci Archeol & Patrimoine, Rabat, Morocco
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fenwick, Corisande,Sterry, Martin,Mattingly, David J.,et al. A Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700-1500 AD)[J],2021,8(2).
APA	Fenwick, Corisande,Sterry, Martin,Mattingly, David J.,Rayne, Louise,&Bokbot, Youssef.(2021).A Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700-1500 AD).JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY,8(2).
MLA	Fenwick, Corisande,et al."A Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700-1500 AD)".JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY 8.2(2021).