Barton, N; Bouzouggar, A; Humphrey, L; Berridge, P; Collcutt, S; Gale, R; Parfitt, S; ... Schwenninger, JL; + view all Barton, N; Bouzouggar, A; Humphrey, L; Berridge, P; Collcutt, S; Gale, R; Parfitt, S; Parker, A; Rhodes, E; Schwenninger, JL; - view fewer (2008) Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene-Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa. CAMB ARCHAEOL J , 18 (2) 195 - 214. 10.1017/S0959774308000255.

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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.

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