@article{discovery1353814, publisher = {CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS}, pages = {195 -- 214}, note = {{\copyright} 2008 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research}, title = {Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene-Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa}, journal = {CAMB ARCHAEOL J}, year = {2008}, month = {June}, volume = {18}, number = {2}, issn = {0959-7743}, author = {Barton, N and Bouzouggar, A and Humphrey, L and Berridge, P and Collcutt, S and Gale, R and Parfitt, S and Parker, A and Rhodes, E and Schwenninger, JL}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959774308000255}, abstract = {Archaeological excavations in 2002-3 at Hattab H Cave in northwestern Morocco revealed all undisturbed Late Palaeolithic Iberomaurusian human burial. This is the first Iberomaurusian inhumation discovered in the region. The skeleton is probably that Of a male aged between 25 and 30 years. The individual shows a characteristic absence of the central upper incisors reported in other Iberomaurusian burials. Accompanying the burial are a stone core and a number of grave goods including bone points, a marine gastropod and a gazelle horn core. Thermoluminescence dating of a burnt stone artefact in association with the burial has provided an age of 8900 +/- 1100 BP. This is one of the youngest ages reported for the Iberomaurusian and raises questions about persistence of hunter-gatherer societies in the Maghreb and the potential for continuity in burial practices with the earliest Neolithic.}, keywords = {PENINSULA, PHYTOLITH, ALGERIA, EUROPE} }