Les occupations et l'exploitation du territoire par Homo sapiens au Maroc Oriental (Province de Jerada) / Homo sapiens occupations and territory exploitation in Eastern Morocco (Jerada Province).
Gema Chacón  1, 2, 3@  , Hassan Aouraghe  4@  , Juan Ignacio Morales  5@  , Carlos Tornero  1, 2@  , Maria Soto  6, 7@  , Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo  9, 8, 1@  , Palmira Saladié  1, 2@  , Diego Lombao  1, 2@  , Antoni Canals  1, 2@  , Celia Díez-Canseco  1, 2@  , Gala García-Argudo  10@  , Juan Marín  3, 2, 1@  , Isabel Expósito  1, 2@  , Ethel AlluÉ  1, 2@  , Iván Ramírez  1, 2@  , Elena Moreno  1@  , Alfonso Benito Calvo  11@  , Lee Arnold  12@  , Martina Demuro  12@  , Mathieu Duval  11, 13@  , Josep Pares  8@  , Raül BartrolÍ  14  , Arturo De Lombera Hermida  15@  , Mourad Farkouch  1, 2, 4  , Al Mahdi Aissa  1, 2, 4  , Sonja Tomasso  16  , Mohamed Souhir  4@  , Aïcha Oujaa  17@  , Said Bengamra  4  , Hamdi Haddoumi  4  , Robert Sala-Ramos  1, 2@  
1 : Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona
2 : Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art, Tarragona
3 : Histoire naturelle de l\'Homme préhistorique
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7194
4 : Faculté de Sciences, Département de Géologie (FSO), Université Mohamed 1er, Oujda
5 : Dep. Història i Arqueologia, Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP), Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
6 : Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
7 : Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
9 : IDEA (Institute of Evolution in Africa), Madrid
8 : Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
10 : Dep. Història i Arqueologia, Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP), Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona
11 : Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
Burgos -  Espagne
12 : School of Physical Sciences, Environment Institute, and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), University of Adelaide
13 : Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University
14 : 13 Archaeological Heritage Survey Head. Ajuntament de Capellades. Barcelona
15 : Grupo de Estudos para a Prehistoria do Noroeste. Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Terrotorio (GEPN-AAT), Dpto Historia I, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
16 : TraceoLab, Université de Liège
17 : Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP)
Rabat -  Maroc

Systematic surveys and archaeological excavations at the Aïn Beni Mathar – Guéfaït basin (Jerada province) have been undertaken during the last fifteen years, allowing the discovery of different stratified open-air locations associated to the MSA and LSA. These new sites are located in the Sahb el Gahr – Swiwina plain and the Tahya-Oued Za river area, mostly on slopes and exposed surfaces of riverbanks, around springs, and associated with areas rich in biotic and abiotic resources.

Technologically the MSA sites are characterized by homogeneous flake assemblages with Levallois components but also discoidal and opportunistic knapping strategies. Retouched tools, mainly denticulates and scrapers, are abundant, and “Aterian” assemblages with tanged pieces and bifacial foliates have been also documented at some locations.

The LSA sites show a higher density of lithic remains composed of standardized laminar and flake assemblages including all the stages of the reduction sequence, showing the typical technological attributes characterizing the Iberomaurusian culture. These assemblages are associated to structured hearths that can be interpreted as domestic areas.

These first interdisciplinary results will provide an overview of the MSA-LSA dynamics at open air contexts, focusing on the subsistence strategies, the mobility in the territory, and the type of occupations depending on the available resources. This work will provide a broader perspective of the Homo sapiens technological evolution and adapting strategies during the North African Middle and Later Stone Age.


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