%0 Journal Article %@ 0959-7743 %A Barton, N %A Bouzouggar, A %A Humphrey, L %A Berridge, P %A Collcutt, S %A Gale, R %A Parfitt, S %A Parker, A %A Rhodes, E %A Schwenninger, JL %D 2008 %F discovery:1353814 %I CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS %J CAMB ARCHAEOL J %K PENINSULA, PHYTOLITH, ALGERIA, EUROPE %N 2 %P 195 - 214 %T Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene-Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1353814/ %V 18 %X 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. %Z © 2008 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research