The society "bridged the gap" between Africa and Europe over 5,000 years ago.

Researchers say the site is the earliest and largest known agricultural complex in Africa beyond the Nile River region.

Recent archaeological findings in northern Morocco reveal evidence of a previously unknown farming society from 3400–2900 BC, marking the earliest agricultural complex in Africa outside the Nile corridor.

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has discovered the earliest previously unknown farming society from a poorly understood period of northwest African prehistory.