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The theatre wasn't the only form of entertainment in Elizabethan England, though. Just down the road from the Globe were several 'bear gardens', where the unpleasant (but popular) 'sport' of bear baiting was staged 2/2
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Henry did famously love a seesaw
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We should put together a dictionary
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Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory - Cyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al. 13/13
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"For all the likelihood of movement in both directions, we should also recognise it as a distinctively African-based community that contributed substantially to the shaping of that social world.” 12/13
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As the authors state: “it is crucial to consider Oued Beht within a wider co-evolving and connective framework embracing peoples both sides of the Mediterranean-Atlantic gateway during the later fourth and third millennia BC." 11/13
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Oued Beht and the north-west Maghreb were clearly integral parts of the wider Mediterranean region. As such, these discoveries significantly change our understanding of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Africa. 10/13
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Importantly, contemporaneous sites with similar pits have been found on the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in Iberia. This suggests that the Maghreb was instrumental in wider western Mediterranean developments during the fourth millennium BC. 9/13
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The team recovered unprecedented domesticated plant and animal remains, pottery and lithics, all dating to the Final Neolithic period. Excavation also revealed extensive evidence for deep storage pits. 8/13
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These results revealed that the site was the largest agricultural complex from this period in Africa outside of the Nile region. All of the evidence points to the presence of a large-scale farming settlement—similar in size to Early Bronze Age Troy. 7/13
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“Our discoveries proved that this gap has been due not to any lack of major prehistoric activity, but to the relative lack of investigation. Oued Beht now affirms the central role of the Maghreb in the emergence of both Mediterranean and wider African societies”. 6/13
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“For more than a century, the last great unknown of later Mediterranean prehistory has been the role played by the societies of the Mediterranean’s southern African shores west of Egypt,” state the authors. 5/13
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To tackle this, Youssef Bokbot (INSAP), Cyprian Broodbank (@cam.ac.uk‬), and Giulio Lucarini (CNR-ISPC and ISMEO) carried out multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork at Oued Beht, Morocco. Their results published in 2024 and have been awarded the 2025 Antiquity Prize 4/13
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Whilst the region’s importance during the Palaeolithic, Iron Age and Islamic periods is well known, there was a significant gap in knowledge of the archaeology of the Maghreb between c. 4000 and 1000 BC, a period of dynamic change across much of the Mediterranean. 3/13
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With a Mediterranean environment, a border with the Sahara desert and the shortest maritime crossing between Africa and Europe, the Maghreb is perfectly located for major cultural developments and intercontinental connections in the past. 2/13
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