New excavations at the site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

Authors

Harold L. Dibble, University of Pennsylvania
V Aldeias, University of Pennsylvania
Esteban Alvarez-Fernandez, University of Salamanca, Spain
Bonnie Blackwell, Williams College, Williamstown, Ma
Emily Hallett-Desguez, Arizona State University
Zenobia Jacobs, University of WollongongFollow
Paul Goldberg, Boston University
Sam C. Lin, University of PennsylvaniaFollow
Andre Morala, Musee National De Prehistoire, France
Michael C. Meyer, University of WollongongFollow
Deborah Olszewski, University of Pennsylvania
Kaye Reed, Arizona State University
Zeljko Rezek, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Richter, University Of Bayreuth
Richard Roberts, University of WollongongFollow
Dennis Sandgathe, University of Pennsylvania
Utsav Schurmans, University of Pennsylvania
Anne Skinner, Williams College, Williamstown, Ma
Teresa Steele, University Of California At Davis
Mohamed El-Hajraoui, Institut National Des Sciences De L'Archeologie Et Du Patrimoine

RIS ID

72178

Publication Details

Dibble, H. L., Aldeias, V., Alvarez-Fernandez, E., Blackwell, B., Hallett-Desguez, E., Jacobs, Z., Goldberg, P., Lin, S. C., Morala, A., Meyer, M. C., Olszewski, D., Reed, K., Rezek, Z., Richter, D., Roberts, R., Sandgathe, D., Schurmans, U., Skinner, A., Steele, T. & El-Hajraoui, M. (2012). New excavations at the site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco. PaleoAnthropology, 2012 145-201.

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.