The monument of Mezora (Chouahed, Arcila, Morocco). Unpublished data about excavations

Abstract

So far there have been many unknowns about the process of archaeological excavation carried out between 1934 and 1936 in the monument of Mezora in the Atlantic Morocco. The lack of official reports forced researchers to make more or less logical or documented approximations of the results. The availability of the researcher of a series of reports made by the archaeologist, which are kept in the Family Archive, along with numerous photographs of the moment, allows us to move along in the knowledge. This advance got from the updated reinterpretation of what was perceived at the time by the archaeologist, as well as with checks that derive from the photographs of the excavation. From this it seems to be deduced the existence in the place of a ritual space, quickly reconverted with a great work in a tomb of monumental exterior aspect.