Preliminary data on the exploitation of marine malacofauna by the Iberomaurusian groups of the Abri Alain rock shelter (Oran, Algeria)

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We express our gratitude to H. De Lumley, St. and R. Orliac for giving us access to the collections of the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine. Sincere thanks also to C. Daujeard and L. Crépin, for their revision, feedback and access to the stereomicroscope at the IPH (C. Daujeard). We thank E. Stoetzel for communicating her unpublished data from the microfauna anaysis, as well as for her revision and comments. Thanks to S. Chibane for discussions about the Iberomaurusien and the exploitation of the terrestrial vertebrates from Abri Alain. We thank in particular P. Granchon (INRAP) for passing on the dissertation and L. Sari for help. All our gratitude also to M. Cammas for the graphics in figure 1. We thank the two reviewers, M. Nami and the second anonymous reviewer for their comments and sound advice.

The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review

“…The change of the hunter-gatherer lifeway combined with the increased input of fatty acids from aquatic resources may have steamed important and innovative mechanisms in the brain of H. sapiens (Archer and Braun, 2013;Bailey and Milner, 2002;Campmas et al, 2016;Erlandson, 2001;Erlandson and Fitzpatrick, 2006;Jones and Stewart, 2016;Marean, 2016Marean, , 2014Will et al, 2019. As a consequence, major impact on its cognitive abilities with utmost significance to human evolution occurred, but not representing significant anatomical changes or being coeval of the H. sapiens anatomic evolution (Will et al, 2019).…”

“…Presently, the largest number of publications about well dated African MSA contexts still comes from the Southern and Northern strips. These include geoarchaeology (Dibble et al, 2012;Goldberg et al, 2009;Haaland et al, 2017;Karkanas and Goldberg, 2010;Marean et al, 2010), archaeobotany (Esteban et al, 2020;Stevens et al, 2023), zooarchaeology (Armstrong, 2016;Campmas et al, 2016;Clark, 2017;Discamps and Henshilwood, 2015;Hallett et al, 2018;Marean et al, 2000;Stoetzel et al, 2011), human remains (Grun et al, 1996;Richter et al, 2017), and artefact made of stone (Breunig, 2003;De La Pen ˜a, 2015;Dibble et al, 2013;Discamps and Henshilwood, 2015;Douze et al, 2020;Hallett et al, 2021;Kinahan, 2011;Mccall et al, 2011;Read, 2017;Richter, 1991;Sandelowsky and Viereck, 1969;Schmidt, 2011;Shackley, 1980;Soriano et al, 2015Soriano et al, , 2007Way et al, 2022;Wendt, 1972;Wilkins et al, 2017;Wurz, 2013) bone (Bouzouggar et al, 2018;Hallett et al, 2021;Turner et al, 2020), shell (Henshilwood et al, 2004;…”

Early Modern Humans and the Marine Environment [The Iberomaurusian[

“…[FIGURE8] according to studies carried out byCampmas and al. in 2016, Merzoug S. in 2017 and Merzoug S. and al.…”