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 KW - PENINSULA KW - PHYTOLITH KW - ALGERIA KW - EUROPE ER -