Abstract
Main objectives of the project and principal results of field campaigns are summarized. Our hypothesis was that the valley was occupied not before the Mid Holocene, associated to environmental changes caused by the displacement of the summer monsoon and the onset of more arid conditions. Also that it was the value of bovines as mobile wealth, the reason behind the first summer trips to Oukaimeden, profiting of snow melting and wet pastures in the valley. The control of critical resources as summer pastures could be underlying into the act of carving rock art.
Highlights
The discovery of rock art in the High Atlas is a rather recent phenomenon when compared to other areas in the Maghreb
With few exceptions (El Graoui et al 2008), their attention was mainly focused on rock depictions rather than on the art embedded in the landscape as a language conveying how the inhabitants of the valley projected the physical and emotional organization of their place in the world as expressed by Heidegger (Heidegger 2012: 74 and ff.)
This project was conceived under a Landscape Archaeology approach
Summary
With few exceptions (El Graoui et al 2008), their attention was mainly focused on rock depictions rather than on the art embedded in the landscape as a language conveying how the inhabitants of the valley projected the physical and emotional organization of their place in the world as expressed by Heidegger (Heidegger 2012: 74 and ff.). Following that perspective, this project was conceived under a Landscape Archaeology approach. Some prominent points on the landscape are imbued with symbolic meaning, and penalties and damnations for violating the closure period of the Oukaïmeden pastures are severe
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