Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-11-05 DOI:10.1163/21915784-bja10008

Y. Bokbot, Corisande Fenwick, D. Mattingly, N. Sheldrick, M. Sterry

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Abstract

The article presents important results from the Middle Draa Project (MDP) in southern Morocco related to two mid-1st millennium CE hilltop settlements (hillforts) that were associated with significant rock art assemblages. The combination of detailed survey and radiocarbon dating of these remarkable sites provides a unique window on the Saharan world in which the pecked engravings, predominantly of horses, were produced. As the horse imagery featured on the walls of buildings within the settlement, the radiocarbon dating around the mid-1st millennium CE can also be applied in this instance to the rock art. The rarity of rock art of this period within habitation sites is also discussed and it is argued that its occurrence at both these locations indicates that they had some special social or sacred significance for their occupants. While it is commonplace for rock art of this era, featuring horses and camels, to be attributed by modern scholars to mobile pastoralists, a further argument of the paper is that the desert societies were in a period of transformation at this time, with the development of oases. The association of the rock art imagery with sedentary settlements, where grain was certainly being processed and stored, is thus an additional new element of contextual information for the widespread Saharan images of horses and horse and riders.

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马和栖息地：来自摩洛哥瓦迪德拉山顶加固定居点的铁器时代岩石艺术

本文介绍了摩洛哥南部Middle Draa项目（MDP）的重要成果，该项目与公元1世纪中期的两个山顶定居点（hillforts）有关，这些定居点与重要的岩石艺术组合有关。这些引人注目的遗址的详细调查和放射性碳年代测定相结合，为了解撒哈拉世界提供了一扇独特的窗口，在这个世界上，主要是马的啄木鸟雕刻品。由于定居点内建筑物墙上的马图像，公元前一千年中期左右的放射性碳也可以应用于岩石艺术。还讨论了这一时期的岩石艺术在居住地点的罕见性，并认为它在这两个地点的出现表明它们对居住者具有某种特殊的社会或神圣意义。虽然现代学者将这个时代以马和骆驼为特色的岩石艺术归因于流动的牧民是很常见的，但论文的另一个论点是，随着绿洲的发展，沙漠社会此时正处于转型期。因此，岩石艺术图像与定居的定居点（谷物肯定是在那里加工和储存的）的联系，是撒哈拉地区广泛存在的马、马和骑手图像的一个新的背景信息元素。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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