entity · place_iberia1_strait_gibraltar
Strait of Gibraltar interaction frame
Also known as: Gibraltar zone, northwest Morocco
Analytical interaction frame joining southern Iberian and northwest African evidence only where dated material supports comparison.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Hamza Benattia, Youssef Bokbot, Jorge Onrubia-Pintado, Meryem Benerradi, Bouchra Bougariane, Bouchra Bouhamidi, Jared Carballo-Pérez, Othman Echcherif-Baamrani, Asmae Elqably, Noufel Ghayati, Hassan Hachami, Mohamed Kbiri-Alaoui, Raluca Lazarescu, Lorena Lombardi, Giulio Lucarini, Rafael M. Martínez-Sánchez, Marta Mateu-Sagés, Pau Menéndez-Molist, Ignacio Montero-Ruiz, Zayd Ouakrim, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Moad Radi, Joan Ramon-Torres, Eric Sobrevia-Corral, Tachfine Touri, Cyprian Broodbank (2025)Provides a securely excavated northwest African sequence.
Locator: pp. 354–374 - informs · contextualizes
The Phoenician diaspora in the westernmost Mediterranean: recent discoveries — José Suárez-Padilla, Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, José L. Caro (2021)Provides the early colonial-contact chronology on the Iberian side.
Locator: pp. 1495–1510
Research description
The Strait is represented as a maritime interaction zone, not a frontier, colony line or guaranteed route.
Evidence and sources
- supports · contextualizes
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Hamza Benattia, Youssef Bokbot, Jorge Onrubia-Pintado, Meryem Benerradi, Bouchra Bougariane, Bouchra Bouhamidi, Jared Carballo-Pérez, Othman Echcherif-Baamrani, Asmae Elqably, Noufel Ghayati, Hassan Hachami, Mohamed Kbiri-Alaoui, Raluca Lazarescu, Lorena Lombardi, Giulio Lucarini, Rafael M. Martínez-Sánchez, Marta Mateu-Sagés, Pau Menéndez-Molist, Ignacio Montero-Ruiz, Zayd Ouakrim, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Moad Radi, Joan Ramon-Torres, Eric Sobrevia-Corral, Tachfine Touri, Cyprian Broodbank (2025)Provides a securely excavated northwest African sequence.
Locator: pp. 354–374 - supports · contextualizes
The Phoenician diaspora in the westernmost Mediterranean: recent discoveries — José Suárez-Padilla, Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, José L. Caro (2021)Provides the early colonial-contact chronology on the Iberian side.
Locator: pp. 1495–1510
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for place_iberia1_strait_gibraltar · geography assertion