Auclair Laurent, Hoarau B., Ewague A. (2015). Les chasseurs du Sahara atlantique ont-ils inventé la métallurgie ? Les haches "à tranchant en éventail" dans l'art rupestre du sud marocain. Anthropologie, 119 (1), p. 72-88. ISSN 0003-5521.
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Les chasseurs du Sahara atlantique ont-ils inventé la métallurgie ? Les haches "à tranchant en éventail" dans l'art rupestre du sud marocain
Anthropologie, 2015,
119 (1), p. 72-88 ISSN 0003-5521
It is generally accepted that the metal appeared in Morocco under Iberian influence during the second millennium BC (3800-3200 BP). On the base of three main types of "peltiforme" axes represented in rock engravings, we assume the existence of an endogenous and independent invention of metallurgy in southern Morocco. Initially, we will discuss the chronological implications of this proposal, which will be then confronted with historical and ethnological data. Several factors support the hypothesis that a black population of nomadic hunters was established on the north bank of the Moroccan Sahara. This population probably assimilated by paleoberbere society from the late Neolithic would be the inventor of the "Metgourine" axe and Metallurgy. Such a hypothesis is supported by a set of arguments from various disciplinary fields.
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