New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

  1. BONNIE A.B. BLACKWELL
  2. SAM C. LIN
  3. DANIEL RICHTER
  4. EMILY HALLETT-DESGUEZ
  5. ANDRÉ MORALA
  6. HAROLD L. DIBBLE
  7. ZELJKO REZEK
  8. PAUL GOLDBERG
  9. ZENOBIA JACOBS
  10. DEBORAH I. OLSZEWSKI
  11. KAYE REED
  12. MICHAEL C. MEYER
  13. DENNÉ REED
  14. Vera Aldeias
  15. Esteban Álvarez Fernández
Journal:
PaleoAnthropology

ISSN: 1545-0031

Year of publication: 2012

Volume: 2012

Pages: 145-201

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4207/PA.2012.ART74 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

New excavations at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, began in 2007 and continued through 2010. This site, originally excavated by Roche in the 1950s, contained deposits with Aterian, Iberomaurusian, and Neolithic materials, although the latter were completely removed during Roche's excavations. This report presents an overview of the recent excavations, the stratigraphic sequence of the site, absolute dates based on OSL, TL, and ESR, and detailed data on the lithic (Iberomaurusian, Aterian, and Mousterian) and faunal assemblages, the latter of which includes large mammals, microvertebrates, and marine shells