Grotte des Pigeons,    Morocco Go to Data Dashboard
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C14; URN; TML; OSL;
URN OSL TML C14;Bouzouggar A. et al. (2007). "82000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(24): 9964-9969.
 sapiens
Homo sapiens
 Levallois; Side scrapers; Small radial Levallois cores; a few thin bifacially worked foliate points;Engraved ochre; beads or personal ornaments; bone tools; engraving (engraved stone bone or wood); pigments or ochre- unequivocal symbolic utilization;
Eastern Morocco near the village of Taforalt
Bouzouggar A. et al. (2007). "82000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(24): 9964-9969.

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C14;
C14 of charcoals near burialReference: Humphrey Louise Silvia M. Bello Elaine Turner Abdeljalil Bouzouggar Nick Barton. Iberomaurusian funerary behavior: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons Taforalt Moroccos
 sapiens
Homo sapiens
 ;ochre in cave art; ochre- in situ; ochre used as a pigment
Grotte des Piegons Taforalt Morocco
Humphrey Louise Silvia M. Bello Elaine Turner Abdeljalil Bouzouggar Nick Barton. Iberomaurusian funerary behavior: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons Taforalt Moroccos

student Students of ANTH 6100
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Bouzouggar A. et al. (2007). 82000 year old shell beads from north africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior. National Academy of Sciences 104 (24).
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http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090505.html
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 ;ochre symbolism; figure; figure; fire;beads adornment
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