Discovery of 5,000-year-old farming society in Morocco fills a major gap in history – north-west Africa was a central player in trade and culture

By Giulio Lucarini, Senior Researcher, Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council (CNR)
Cyprian Broodbank, Disney Professor of Archaeology, Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Youssef Bokbot, Senior researcher, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat

The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.

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