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Iberomaurusian
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Iberomaurusian

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The Iberomaurusian is a backed bladelet lithic industry found near the coasts of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It is also known from a single major site in Libya, the Haua Fteah, where the industry is known as the Eastern Oranian. The Iberomaurusian seems to have appeared around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), somewhere between c. 25,000 and 23,000 cal BP. It would have lasted until the early Holocene, c. 11,000 cal BP.

Key facts

Archaeological culture.name
Iberomaurusian
Archaeological culture.map
Distribution of major Iberomaurusian and Capsian sites in the Maghreb.jpg
Archaeological culture.region
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya (not shown on map).
Archaeological culture.period
Later Stone Age, Epipalaeolithic, or Upper Paleolithic
Archaeological culture.dates
c. 25/23,000 – c. 11,000 cal BP
Archaeological culture.typesite
La Mouillah
Archaeological culture.majorsites
Taforalt, Afalou bou Rhummel, Haua Fteah, Tamar Hat, Columnata
Archaeological culture.precededby
Aterian
Archaeological culture.followedby
Mushabian, Cardium pottery, Capsian

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Definition
  • Alternative names
  • Timeline of sites
  • Genetics
  • European and Levantine admixtures (c.5500 BC)
  • Food consumption
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References

The Iberomaurusian is a backed bladelet lithic industry found near the coasts of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It is also known from a single major site in Libya, the Haua Fteah, where the industry is known as the Eastern Oranian. The Iberomaurusian seems to have appeared around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), somewhere between c. 25,000 and 23,000 cal BP. It would have lasted until the early Holocene, c. 11,000 cal BP.

The name "Iberomaurusian" means "of Iberia and Mauretania", the latter being a Latin name for northwest Africa. Paul Maurice Pallary (1909) coined this term to describe assemblages from the site of La Mouillah in the belief that the industry extended over the strait of Gibraltar into the Iberian Peninsula. This theory is now generally discounted (Garrod 1938), but the name has persisted.

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