Communities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago.
Articles on African archaeology
Displaying all articles
New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.
New research indicates that collective forms of governance were more likely.
Because iron could be used in tools, it was a technical and social revolution, especially for agriculture.
The discovery points to a long evolutionary history in north Africa, much earlier than modern Homo sapiens.
A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of the power they contained.
The Maghreb has long been absent from studies on the recent prehistory of the Mediterranean. The new findings change that.
The war in Sudan has seen the looting of the country’s museums. Heritage boss Ikhlas Abdel Latief speaks about the losses.
The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.
Top contributors
-
Disney Professor of Archaeology, Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
-
Senior Researcher, Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council (CNR)
-
Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
-
Chercheur en Préhistoire et conservateur principal des Monuments et Sites, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat
-
PhD Candidate in Egyptology, University of Toronto
-
Maître d'enseignement et de recherche en archéologie et anthropologie, Université de Genève
-
Maître de conférence en archéologie, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
-
Chercheure en métallurgie et en archéologie, University of Cambridge
-
Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY
-
Senior researcher, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat
-
Assistant Research Professor, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
-
Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University
-
Sessional Academic, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University