New observations in Grotte des Gazelles at Dar Bouazza (Casablanca coastline): lithostratigraphy, taphonomy and Late Pleistocene faunal accumulation context
Mathieu Rué
(1, 2)
,
C. Daujeard
(3)
,
Geraads Denis
(4)
,
Mosshine El Graoui
(5)
,
Paul Fernandes
(2, 6)
,
Alain Queffelec
(6)
,
Rosalia Gallotti
(6)
,
Abderrahim Mohib
(5)
,
Jean Paul Raynal
(6, 7)
1
ASM -
Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
2 Paléotime
3 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
4 DEHIPE - Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces [Paris]
5 INSAP - Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine
6 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
7 Department of Human Evolution [Leipzig]
2 Paléotime
3 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
4 DEHIPE - Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces [Paris]
5 INSAP - Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine
6 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
7 Department of Human Evolution [Leipzig]
Mathieu Rué
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C. Daujeard
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Geraads Denis
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Paul Fernandes
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Alain Queffelec
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Jean Paul Raynal
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Résumé
The preventive surveys conducted from 2005 to 2012 in a littoral cave (Grotte des Gazelles, Dar Bouazza, south of Casablanca) with swallow holes acting as pitfalls reveal new data about infilling and faunal accumulation process during Late Pleistocene times in this part of North Africa. The main issue was to characterize i) the origin of the infilling and of the faunal accumulations and ii) the impact of post-depositional processes and of carnivore vs hominin activity on these faunal sets. Answering to these points will enable us to determine the modalities of use and sharing of the cave by the various predators and/or scavengers as well as to clarify the presence of artefacts. The use of appropriate sedimentological and taphonomical methods to study this site investigated in short periods of surveys allowed us to suggest a first formation scenario of the cavity. The successive transformations of faunal remains give information in the modes of predation and gathering upon ungulates. A common feature of the different layers is the paucity of human traces and the prevalence of carnivore activity in layers containing exclusively Moustero-Aterian lithic artefacts made of flint and quartzites and percussors.
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New observations in Grotte des Gazelles at Dar Bouazza (Casablanca coastline): lithostratigraphy, taphonomy and Late Pleistocene faunal accumulation context
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Résumé |
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The preventive surveys conducted from 2005 to 2012 in a littoral cave (Grotte des Gazelles, Dar Bouazza, south of Casablanca) with swallow holes acting as pitfalls reveal new data about infilling and faunal accumulation process during Late Pleistocene times in this part of North Africa. The main issue was to characterize i) the origin of the infilling and of the faunal accumulations and ii) the impact of post-depositional processes and of carnivore vs hominin activity on these faunal sets. Answering to these points will enable us to determine the modalities of use and sharing of the cave by the various predators and/or scavengers as well as to clarify the presence of artefacts. The use of appropriate sedimentological and taphonomical methods to study this site investigated in short periods of surveys allowed us to suggest a first formation scenario of the cavity. The successive transformations of faunal remains give information in the modes of predation and gathering upon ungulates. A common feature of the different layers is the paucity of human traces and the prevalence of carnivore activity in layers containing exclusively Moustero-Aterian lithic artefacts made of flint and quartzites and percussors.
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Auteur(s) |
Mathieu Rué
1, 2
, C. Daujeard
3
, Geraads Denis
4
, Mosshine El Graoui
5
, Paul Fernandes
2, 6
, Alain Queffelec
6
, Rosalia Gallotti
6
, Abderrahim Mohib
5
, Jean Paul Raynal
6, 7
1
ASM -
Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes
( 86793 )
- Route de Mende
Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3
34199 MONTPELLIER Cedex
- France
2
Paléotime
( 407990 )
- 75 avenue Jean-Séraphin Achard-Picard 38250 Villard-de-Lans
- France
3
MNHN -
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
( 7512 )
- 57, rue Cuvier - 75231 Paris Cedex 05
- France
4
DEHIPE -
Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces [Paris]
( 432 )
- 44 rue de l'Amiral Mouchez 75014 PARIS
- France
5
INSAP -
Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine
( 6591 )
- Avenue John Kennedy, casier postal, Rabat, Maroc
- Maroc
6
PACEA -
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
( 205557 )
- Université de Bordeaux - Bâtiment B8 - CS50023 - Allée Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire - 33615 Pessac Cedex
- France
7
Department of Human Evolution [Leipzig]
( 86037 )
- Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Allemagne
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Invité |
Non
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Audience |
Internationale
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Actes |
Non
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Ville |
Agadir
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Date de publication |
2013
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Titre du congrès |
Quaternaire du Nord-Ouest de l’Afrique, Septième Rencontre des Quaternaristes Marocains (RQM7)
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Date début congrès |
2013-11-19
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Date fin congrès |
2013-11-22
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Pays |
Maroc
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