event · evt_kach_kouch_kk2_settlement
Stable farming settlement at Kach Kouch during phase KK2
Daub-built structures, rock-cut silos and pits, grinding stones, cereal and pulse remains, and livestock document a stable farming settlement.
What is the evidence?
observation
Daub-built structures, rock-cut silos and pits, grinding stones, cereal and pulse remains, and livestock document a stable farming settlement.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: range
very highThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Benattia, Hamza, Bokbot, Youssef, Onrubia-Pintado, Jorge, Benerradi, Meryem, Bougariane, Bouchra, Bouhamidi, Bouchra, Carballo-Pérez, Jared, Echcherif-Baamrani, Othman, Elqably, Asmae, Ghayati, Noufel, Hachami, Hassan, Kbiri-Alaoui, Mohamed, Lazarescu, Raluca, Lombardi, Lorena, Lucarini, Giulio, Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M., Mateu-Sagés, Marta, Menéndez-Molist, Pau, Montero-Ruiz, Ignacio, Ouakrim, Zayd, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Radi, Moad, Ramon-Torres, Joan, Sobrevia-Corral, Eric, Touri, Tachfine, Broodbank, Cyprian (2025)Provides the complete settlement and subsistence evidence.
Locator: KK2 section; Figures 3–10; conclusion
Interpretation and caveats
Kach Kouch demonstrates locally organized sedentary life in north-west Africa centuries before the securely dated Phoenician horizon.
Event context
Classification
Event type: settlement continuity and farming
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kach Kouch, Kach Kouch KK2 farming community
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Morocco and Atlantic façade, western Mediterranean and Iberian connections. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides the complete settlement and subsistence evidence. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: KK2 section; Figures 3–10; conclusion.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Benattia, Hamza, Bokbot, Youssef, Onrubia-Pintado, Jorge, Benerradi, Meryem, Bougariane, Bouchra, Bouhamidi, Bouchra, Carballo-Pérez, Jared, Echcherif-Baamrani, Othman, Elqably, Asmae, Ghayati, Noufel, Hachami, Hassan, Kbiri-Alaoui, Mohamed, Lazarescu, Raluca, Lombardi, Lorena, Lucarini, Giulio, Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M., Mateu-Sagés, Marta, Menéndez-Molist, Pau, Montero-Ruiz, Ignacio, Ouakrim, Zayd, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Radi, Moad, Ramon-Torres, Joan, Sobrevia-Corral, Eric, Touri, Tachfine, Broodbank, Cyprian (2025)Provides the complete settlement and subsistence evidence.
Locator: KK2 section; Figures 3–10; conclusion
Referenced records
- Kach Kouch KK2 farming community · entity
- Kach Kouch · entity