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Dibble, Harold L.; Aldeias, Vera; Álvarez-Fernández, Esteban; Blackwell, Bonnie A.B.; Hallett-Desguez, Emily; Jacobs, Zenobia; Goldberg, Paul; Lin, Sam C.; Morala, André; Meyer, Michael C.; Olszewski, Deborah I.; Reed, Kaye E.; Reed, Denné; Režek, Željko; Richter, Daniel; Roberts, Richard G.; Sandgathe, Dennis; Schurmans, Utsav A.; Skinner, Anne R.; Steele, Teresa E.; El-Hajraoui, Mohamed

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“…In contrary, others sequences in the Rabat-Temara region show different chronologies: for example, the latest MSA in Contrebandiers cave is older than 90 ka by OSL and 70 ka by TL (Dibble et al, 2012). However, erosion surface and the disruption in the deposits of the Contrebandiers cave (Aldeias et al, 2014) limit the discussion.…”

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“…During the last decades, research in Northwestern Africa has greatly improved the chronology of the North Africa Middle Stone Age (Barton et al, 2009(Barton et al, , 2015Dibble et al, 2012;Doerschner et al, 2016;El Hajraoui et al, 2012;Jacobs et al, 2011Jacobs et al, , 2012Klasen et al, 2017;Richter et al, 2017Richter et al, , 2010Schwenninger et al, 2010).…”

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Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco): New data about the end of the MSA in Temara region

Arous

Falguères

Tombret

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Quaternary International

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The study of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in North Africa is essential to better understand the human dispersals during the Late Pleistocene. The timing of the transition from the MSA to the Later Stone Age (LSA) in the region is still debated due to the scarcity of sites and the limited chronological constraints available. Among the few existing MIS 5 to MIS 1 archaeological sites in Northwestern Africa, El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco) has been extensively excavated during the last decade. It has provided MSA and LSA sequences from which human remains have been systematically discovered in association with faunal and lithic assemblages. The combined US-ESR method has been applied to date five teeth from layer 3 and 4A, which correspond to the most recent MSA occupations at El Harhoura 2 cave. The results suggest the disappearance of the MSA at this site to have occurred around ~ 40 ka, at the end of MIS 3, which is consistent with the palaeoenvironmental interpretation derived from the faunal remains. These new results suggest that the last MSA human occupation are ~15 ka more recent than previously showed by OSL dating. Further investigation is required to fully understand the reason of such discrepancy between the two methods.

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Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco): New data about the end of the MSA in Temara region

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Falguères

Tombret

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Quaternary International

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“…Contrebandiers Cave (33 55 0 18.2 00 N, 6 57 0 42.4 00 W) is located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco (Figure 1), some 250 meters (m) from the current coast. iScience Article (Dibble et al, 2012). The recent excavations used modern methods to ensure a high degree of contextual control, which included the point-proveniencing of all objects larger than 25 mm with a total station, and the screening of smaller objects from 7-L buckets with 1 cm and 2 mm mesh (Dibble et al, 2012).…”

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“…iScience Article (Dibble et al, 2012). The recent excavations used modern methods to ensure a high degree of contextual control, which included the point-proveniencing of all objects larger than 25 mm with a total station, and the screening of smaller objects from 7-L buckets with 1 cm and 2 mm mesh (Dibble et al, 2012).…”

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“…Roche's previous excavations removed nearly all of the younger Iberomaurusian Later Stone Age (LSA) and Neolithic deposits (Dibble et al, 2012). A small amount of Iberomaurusian material remained in the front of the cave (Supplemental Information), and elsewhere in Morocco similar materials have been dated to 23,459-12,568 calibrated years before present (Staff et al, 2019).…”

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A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco

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Summary The emergence of Homo sapiens in Pleistocene Africa is associated with a profound reconfiguration of technology. Symbolic expression and personal ornamentation, new tool forms, and regional technological traditions are widely recognized as the earliest indicators of complex culture and cognition in humans. Here we describe a bone tool tradition from Contrebandiers Cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, dated between 120,000–90,000 years ago. The bone tools were produced for different activities, including likely leather and fur working, and were found in association with carnivore remains that were possibly skinned for fur. A cetacean tooth tip bears what is likely a combination of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic modification and shows the use of a marine mammal tooth by early humans. The evidence from Contrebandiers Cave demonstrates that the pan-African emergence of complex culture included the use of multiple and diverse materials for specialized tool manufacture.

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Trajectories of Culture Change in Northwest Africa and the Levant: Parallels and Contrasts

Kuhn

2023

Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa

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Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco): New data about the end of the MSA in Temara region

Combined US-ESR dating of fossil teeth from El Harhoura 2 cave (Morocco): New data about the end of the MSA in Temara region

A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco

Trajectories of Culture Change in Northwest Africa and the Levant: Parallels and Contrasts

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