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New interpretations of the Témara’s caves and their occupations: special focus on small vertebrates and palaeoenvironments

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The El Harhoura 2 and El Mnasra caves are located in the region of Témara, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, which was occupied by human populations since the beginning of the Late Pleistocene (around 120 ka BP). The recent excavations yielded human and faunal remains, as well as exceptional archaeological objects associated to anthropological structures. Small vertebrate remains are especially abundant in these sites, which allowed us to realize the first study on these taxa with a pluridisciplinary approach (taxonomy, taphonomy, palaeoecology) for North-African archaeological sites. The continuous sedimentary sequence of these sites covers the last climatic cycle, and is studied in a renewed geologic, stratigraphic, chronological and cultural context. We obtained significant data on the palaeoenvironmental and taphonomic context of the human occupations of the Témara’s caves. Today, there is no equivalent of such regional data for the whole Late Pleistocene in North Africa.
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hal-02986046 , version 1 (02-11-2020)

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Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Emilie Campmas, Bouchra Bougariane, Christiane Denys, Patrick Michel, et al.. New interpretations of the Témara’s caves and their occupations: special focus on small vertebrates and palaeoenvironments. 11th Biennial conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), Jun 2012, Toronto, Canada. p. 143-161. ⟨hal-02986046⟩
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