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Revisiting the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Extreme NW of Africa : The Latest Results of the Chronological Sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan, Morocco)
Youssef BokbotLeonor Peña-chocarroGuillem Pérez-jordàJuan Carlos Vera RodríguezRafael Myro SánchezMarta Moreno-garcíasubject
010506 paleontologyArcheologygeographygeography.geographical_feature_category060102 archaeologyPleistoceneBayesian analysis06 humanities and the artsHiatusImpressed pottery01 natural sciencesArchaeologyRadiocarbonPrehistòriaSequence (geology)CaveAterianTingitana Peninsula0601 history and archaeologyPotteryYounger DryasNorth African Neolithic0105 earth and related environmental sciencesdescription
[EN] This study focuses on the chronostratigraphic sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Dar Ben Karrich, Tétouan, Morocco) excavated in 2012 in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED research project. The broad sequence reveals a series of occupations ranging from the Pleistocene (Moroccan Aterian) to recent historical times. Our research identifies a rich Early Neolithic phase (sixth millennium cal BC) containing the earliest pottery and domesticated animal and plant remains in the western Maghreb. However, this Early Neolithic level is not an immediate successor of the last traces of the Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer occupation, which started at the end of the Younger Dryas (10,900–9700 cal BC). An abandonment phase, spanning more than a millennium, separated them. This hiatus appears to originate from a cold climatic event that began in the late seventh millennium cal BC (ca. 6200 BC) and ended around the mid-sixth millennium cal BC.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2021-02-09 |