Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco
Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco
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马匹和栖息地：摩洛哥瓦迪德拉山顶定居点的铁器时代岩石艺术
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10.1163/21915784-bja10008
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发表时间：
2021
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1.4
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Bokbot Y
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Bokbot Y
本文介绍了摩洛哥南部的中德拉项目（MDP）的重要成果，该项目涉及两个与重要的岩石艺术组合相关的第一个千年中期的CEhilltop定居点。对这些非凡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个独特的窗口，其中主要是马的啄刻版画。正如定居点内建筑物墙壁上的马图像一样，大约公元1世纪中期的放射性碳测年也可以应用于这种情况下的岩石艺术。还讨论了这一时期居住地点内岩石艺术的稀有性，并认为它在这两个地点的出现表明它们对居住者具有特殊的社会或神圣意义。现代学者将这一时期以马和骆驼为特征的岩画归因于移动的游牧民族，这是司空见惯的，但本文进一步认为，这一时期的沙漠社会正处于转型时期，绿洲正在发展。因此，岩石艺术图像与定居点的关联，粮食肯定是在那里加工和储存的，这是撒哈拉人广泛传播的马和马和骑手图像的背景信息的另一个新元素。
The article presents important results from the Middle Draa Project (MDP) in southern Morocco related to two mid-1st millenniumCEhilltop 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 millenniumCEcan 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.