 While benefiting from Punic material culture and political-military institutions, these peripheral Berbers (also called Libyans) maintained their own identity, culture and traditions, continued to develop their own agricultural and village skills, while living with the newcomers from the east in an asymmetric symbiosis.As the centuries passed there naturally grew a Punic society of Phoenician-descent but born in Africa, called "Libyphoenicians".This term later came to be applied also to Berbers acculturated to urban Phoenician culture.