“Today’s migration crisis in the Mediterranean reminds us that Europe’s and North Africa’s histories run in parallel and are inextricably linked, with Mediterranean Africa potentially a vital interface as much as a margin of continents, seas and economic zones. Understanding these changing dynamics over the longterm is a manifest priority”
Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa
ca. 9600-700BC
MedAfrica project sets out to produce the first up-to-date, comprehensive, problematised synthesis and interpretation for a generation of what can be established about long-term social and economic dynamics on the African flank of the Mediterranean between the end of the last glacial (ca. 9600BC) and the arrival of Phoenicians and Greeks (variably 800-600BC), and to identify major factors shaping the patterns detected.
The project is based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
JEBEL GHARBI, LIBYA (PHOTO: GIULIO LUCARINI)
