Initial Investigations into the Exploitation of Coastal Resources in North Africa During the Late Pleistocene at Grotte Des Contrebandiers, Morocco

Steele, Teresa E.; Álvarez-Fernández, Esteban

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“…Unfortunately the 657 mollusk remains from those excavations that pre-date the 1970s received at best very brief 658 descriptions that make it impossible to determine the abundance and density of the mollusk 659 remains. That record has recently been reviewed (Steele and Álvarez-Fernádez, 2011;Steele, 660 2013), and these authors show that the paucity of factual detail makes it impossible to determine 661 the details of the mollusk remains from many of these sites, so there is no value in a site by site 662 review here. Several observations not in those reviews do merit presentation and discussion.…”

Section: North Africa 653mentioning

confidence: 99%

The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia

Marean

2014

Journal of Human Evolution

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The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia

Marean

2014

Journal of Human Evolution

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“…In coastal regions large ungulates (Gazella sp., Bovinae, Equidae, Suidae) and tortoises were consumed (Steele & Álvarez Fernández, 2011;Campmas et al, 2016). A special feature of these coastal regions is the attested consumption of marine shellfish at Grotte des Contrebandiers (Dibble et al, 2012), El Mnasra (Campmas et al, 2015Campmas et al, 2016), El Harhoura I (Stoetzel et al, 2014), El Harhoura II (Stoetzel et al, 2014), Dar es-Soltan 1 (Stoetzel et al, 2014), Mugharet el Aliya (Campmas et al, 2016) and Abrigo de Benzù (Ramos-Muñoz et al, 2016).…”

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Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange

Tafelmaier¹,

Pastoors²,

Weniger³

2018

Munibe, Antropol.-Arkeol.

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Possible contacts between hunter-gatherers of Northern Africa and Europe via the Strait of Gibraltar during the Pleistocene are still object to discussions. In the absence of significant fossil remains, debates are mainly based on similarities and differences of singular aspects of material culture. However, a theoretical framework for these discussions was lacking. The first aim of this study thus has been the development of a theoretical base. We therein included Maslow´s pyramid of basic needs. The idea of our approach is that the presence or absence of so-called cultural tracers identify either contact or disparity. A large database on archaeological sites of Morocco and Southern Iberia dating between 160 ka and 40 ka years ago has been compiled, containing information about lithic technology and typology, lithic raw material acquisition, subsistence patterns and symbolic behaviour. We formulated three potential contact scenarios between the two regions. The presence and/ or absence of so-called cultural tracers within the data set, that covered all levels of Maslow´s pyramid, led us to conclude that -based on the present archaeological and anthropological data -no contact took place between Iberian and North African populations across the Strait of Gibraltar in the given time frame. RESUMENContactos entre grupos humanos del Pleistoceno superior entre África del Norte y la Península Ibérica cruzando el Estrecho de Gibraltar están siendo objeto de debates. Por la falta de fósiles humanos significativos el debate se centra básicamente en similitudes y diferencias en la cultura material. Pero todavía falta un marco metodológico para la discusión. Este trabajo intenta la presentación de una base teórica preliminar. La pirámide de Maslow con necesidades básicas forma parte de estas reflexiones. La ausencia o presencia de marcadores culturales indica según nuestro enfoque contactos o disparidades. En un banco de datos de yacimientos arqueológicos entre 160 ka y 40 ka de Marruecos y del sur de España hemos compilado información sobre tecnología de inventarios líticos, aprovisionamiento de materias primas, patrones de asentamiento y comportamiento simbólico. Se pueden formular tres escenarios de contacto entre ambas regiones. La aplicación de marcadores culturales in relación con la pirámide entera de Maslow indica que según la información actual no se pueden demostrar contactos entre ambos continentes. LABURPENAIparraldeko Afrikaren eta Iberiar penintsularen artean, Gibraltargo itsasartea zeharkatuta, Goi-pleistozenoan giza taldeen artean izan ziren harremanak eztabaidagai bihurtu dira. Gizakiaren fosil esanguratsurik ez dagoenez, eztabaidaren gai nagusia, batez ere, kultura materialean dauden antzekotasunak eta aldeak dira. Baina oraindik eztabaidarako testuinguru metodologikoa falta da. Lan honen helburua da aurretiazko oinarri teorikoa aurkeztea. Oinarrizko beharrak dituen Maslow piramidea gogoeta horien baitan dago. Gure ustez, markatzaile kulturalik ez izateak edo halakoak izateak harremanak edo desber...

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“…Nearby, only the early work at Dar es-Soltan I provided a species list for comparisons (Ruhlman and Neuville 1951). Our current excavations at Contrebandiers Cave have yielded mollusks throughout the sequence, thus providing new opportunities to study mollusk exploitation in detail (see also Steele and Álvarez Fernández 2011, which includes a review of North African evidence). To date, over 10,000 shell fragments have been recorded, representing almost 3,000 individuals (Tables 21a, 21b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Aldeias²,

Álvarez-Fernández³

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Initial Investigations into the Exploitation of Coastal Resources in North Africa During the Late Pleistocene at Grotte Des Contrebandiers, Morocco

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The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia

The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia

Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange

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