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Rock carvings in Morocco facing the threats of nature
Is rich in many areas of Morocco forms a variety of striking rock carvings in the depths of the foot. And dating of these inscriptions to the presence of rights in this land for thousands of years, as it is the oldest models of Fine Arts in the country.
The consensus amongst researchers that the area of rock carvings in Morocco is still a virgin, and that many sites have not been discovered yet, or did not receive its share of in-depth research.They also affirm that many of the known sites Bnicochha outstanding under the various ravages, and that the threat came from nature, and also from humans and animals.
According to the specialized reference that the «AQA» Tata state (south of the Atlas Mountains) is available on hundreds of rock carvings dating back to prehistory. And includes the Draa Valley, Ouarzazate no less than thirty locations of the most famous rock carvings on the outskirts of Tnzulan (central shield).
In the desert regions of Morocco there are millions of rock carvings, which gradually fade away, according to an international report. And between regions and Aagram Taleuen in the province of Taroudant (east of Agadir) There are rock carvings represent a group of warriors. And provided one of the western channels late last year an investigation into the rock carvings scattered in the suburbs of Guelmim (south of Agadir) with researchers Moroccans year ago to the discovery of inscriptions in this area is rich in the Middle Atlas mountains away from the capital Rabat, about 120 km.
But the most famous rock carvings in Morocco remain those that abound in the area of Mount Toubkal on the outskirts of Marrakech, as it includes more than 500 inscriptions dated between a thousand and two thousand years BC, and especially those which are made known, we find Aagor, frequented by researchers specialists of various wilderness, in addition Inscriptions to Ait Aoaziq Tazairin in the South in Ouarzazate, dating back to more than four thousand years BC.
Since the most ancient times initiated primitive man carved his observations and beliefs on the rocks. And collect the relevant authorities that the rock carvings adopted the diagnosis in its early stages, before to take care of symbols, lines, and then, with emphasis on the most beautiful rock paintings are the oldest.
Thus was the oldest of these inscriptions represented the sun and the moon and the stars, or for animals (cows and elephants) and birds (Naamat), and plants, and carts. At a later stage appeared inscriptions that represent hunters chasing monsters huge flesh and skin and bones, along with swords, daggers and other weapons used in hunting metal, or a peasant tilling the ground.
The researchers that the rock carvings are not the legacy one civilization, but the legacy of civilizations and peoples interacted and coexisted for thousands of years, is that many of the rock carvings were lost because of the architecture above it, or the use of stones engraved in house building mountain or stables nomadic herders, known as «Agdal» , this living heritage has been subjected to loss of natural and human factors and also of the animal.
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