The Neolithisation of the Western Mediterranean: new debates about an old issue

Manen, Claire; Lagrán, Íñigo García Martínez de; López-Montalvo, Esther

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.04.030

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“…The neolithization of what is now western Mediterranean Maghreb is a complex process that can only be understood by considering a wide range of variables including the local agro-pastoral economy, technofunctional adaptions, regional diversity, chronology, and the Epipaleolithic inheritance. The understanding of the last hunter-gatherer societies and the characteristics of their socioeconomic organization are a crucial step in the study of the first Neolithic groups in this region of Africa (Manen et al 2018). Our work contributes to this understanding by providing information on the lithic technology and economy of Holocene huntergatherers and Neolithic societies of the eastern Rif in northeast Morocco.…”

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The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n’Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco)

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Archaeological research has been carried out in the Eastern Rif (Morocco) since 1995 by a collaborative Moroccan-German research team. A major topic of the project is the transition from hunting-gathering to food production and related cultural developments. Innovations such as pottery and domesticated species appeared around 7.6 ka calBP. The cultivation of cereals and pulses is evident at that time. Two of the most important sites in the area are Ifri Oudadane and Ifri n’Etsedda. Both provide Epipaleolithic as well as Neolithic deposits. While innovative technologies such as pottery production and cultivation indicate external influences, lithic artifacts demonstrate local technological and behavioral traditions. Therefore, the study of lithic industries is crucial to understanding the nature of cultural continuity and discontinuity between the hunting-gathering and agricultural populations in the Eastern Rif. Ifri n’Etsedda provides two distinct Epipaleolithic deposits and thus offers the opportunity to study possible changes throughout the Epipalaeolithic and relationship to the later Early Neolithic (ENC). In combination with the earlier phases of Early Neolithic assemblages (ENA, ENB) at Ifri Oudadane, we are now in a better position to understand the development of early-to-mid Holocene lithic technology in the Eastern Rif. We show that the lithic record of Ifri n’Etsedda does not indicate any significant change in raw material supply, blank production, and tool distribution from the Early Epipaleolithic to the Early Neolithic B. Therefore, we argue for behavioral continuity from the Epipaleolithic to the Neolithic period. In contrast, the assemblages of the Early Neolithic C show changes in lithic technology.

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The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n’Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco)

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“…To contribute to this research avenue, this study explores the influence of the Neolithic transition in Western Europe on the phenotypic diversification of an indigenous species: the wild boar (Sus scrofa). Emerging in the Near East around 9500 BCE, the Neolithic dispersal reached central-western Europe by 5850 BCE through demic and cultural diffusion via the Danube River and the northern Mediterranean coasts, with the adaptation of technoeconomic strategies to different ecological conditions along the way (Manen et al, 2019(Manen et al, , 2018. Sus s. scrofa was present in North Western Europe since the Middle Pleistocene, and was evidenced in MIS 7 by 250 ka BCE (Auguste, 2009).…”

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