Authors
R. Nicholas E. Barton (Ed.), Abdeljalil Bouzouggar (Ed.), Simon N. Collcutt (Ed.), Louise T. Humphrey (Ed.)
Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Africa: Excavations at Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco
Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt (Morocco), is one of the most famous cave sites in North Africa. We present new findings on the Iberomaurusian hunter-gatherer inhabitants who faced major challenges of a rapidly changing climate.
In this volume we describe archaeological evidence covering the period 23,000 to 12,500 years ago. We examine the nature of environmental and behavioural changes, culminating in a major broadening of the food spectrum at around 15,000 years ago, linked to technological innovation in some aspects but conservatism in others. The cave also came to be used as a substantial human cemetery, enabling us to explore burial practices and recover additional information on diet and life-styles.
Chapters
Table of Contents
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Simon N. Collcutt
2. Lithostratigraphies and Sediments
21-116
Richard Macphail
3. Sediment Micromorphology
117-141
Richard A. Staff, Peter Ditchfield, Edward Rhodes, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Laine Clark-Balzan, Sharen Lee, R. Nicholas E. Barton
4. Chronology
143-154
Yolanda Carrión Marco
5. Charcoal Analysis: Wood Exploitation and Fire
155-170
Jacob Morales
6. Other Charred Plant Macro-Remains (Seeds, Fruits, etc.)
171-187
Sarah Jones, Steven Ward, Adrian G. Parker
7. Phytoliths
189-205
Victoria K. Taylor, Martin G. Bell
8. Land Molluscs
207-237
Elaine Turner, Cara M. Wall-Scheffler
9. Large Mammalian Fauna
239-312
Joanne H. Cooper
10. The Late Pleistocene Avian Assemblages from Sectors 8 and 10
313-330
Christopher Gleed-Owen, R. Nicholas E. Barton
11. Other Faunal Remains
331-334
Joshua T. Hogue, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, R. Nicholas E. Barton
12. Later Stone Age Lithic Artefacts
335-393
Abigail Desmond, Alison Freyne
13. Organic Artefacts
395-427
R. Nicholas E. Barton, Simon N. Collcutt, Louise T. Humphrey, Alison Freyne
14. Inorganic Material
429-441
Louise T. Humphrey, Alison Freyne, Paul Berridge, Peter Berridge
15. Human Burial Evidence
443-482
Isabelle De Groote, Louise T. Humphrey
16. The Human Skeletal Remains: a Physical Anthropological Assessment
483-489
Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Angela Vaughan, Peter Ditchfield, Louise T. Humphrey
17. Isotope Ecology of the Sector 10 Burials
491-496
18. Synthesis and Interpretation
497-548
