TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2008/06//
N1  - © 2008 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
IS  - 2
TI  - Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene-Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa
EP  -  214
SN  - 0959-7743
VL  - 18
N2  - 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.
JF  - CAMB ARCHAEOL J
PB  - CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
SP  - 195 
ID  - discovery1353814
AV  - public
A1  - Barton, N
A1  - Bouzouggar, A
A1  - Humphrey, L
A1  - Berridge, P
A1  - Collcutt, S
A1  - Gale, R
A1  - Parfitt, S
A1  - Parker, A
A1  - Rhodes, E
A1  - Schwenninger, JL
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959774308000255
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KW  -  PHYTOLITH
KW  -  ALGERIA
KW  -  EUROPE
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