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9 - Revisiting First Millennium BC Graves in North-West Morocco

from Part III - Looking North

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

By
Emanuele Papi
Edited by
M. C. Gatto ,
D. J. Mattingly ,
N. Ray  and
M. Sterry
M. C. Gatto
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
N. Ray
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
M. Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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The historiography of ancient Morocco is a sequence of incursions and migrations. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the dolmens of Morocco were considered proof of the migration of ‘populations blondes’ to Africa from the Iberian Peninsula in the second half of the second millennium BC. Based on a comparison of megalithic tombs from Spain and the presence of light-haired indigenous people, this migratory theory was supported by two authoritative French scholars: the diplomat-archaeologistCharles Tissot and the neurologist-anthropologist Paul Brocca. Gabriel Camps also considered the megalithic dolmens found in three zones of Morocco (the Tangier peninsula, the Grand Atlas mountains south of Marrakech and the territory of the Béni-Snassen at the Algerian border) to be similar to the Iberian megalithic cist tombs of the second millennium BC and distinct from the Algerian and Tunisian dolmens.

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Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 281 - 312
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Print publication year: 2019

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