Les monuments funéraires du Maroc saharien

Abstract

The funeral monuments are well known for a long time in the Sahara and the Maghreb. Their shape is diversified and leads us to hint different types according to the regions and during the periods they were built. Nonetheless, very few were studied and they are only known through short notes of prospecting. The software Google Earth, furnishing satellite photography, allows to distinguish the very morphologies of these monuments, without any necessity to move on the ground. More than 2000 monuments from the South of Morocco are inventoried and classed by type in the present note. They are studied in the general context of the Sahara and the Maghreb.