Territory of Ibero-Maurusian and Capsian cultures

Ibero-Maurusian, or Oranian^[1], or Ouchtatian^[2] archaeological industry was spread in the Northern Africa in Epipaleolithic. The culture is supposed to have emerged either as a result of migration of Cro-Magnon people from the Iberian peninsula, hence the name, or from the local Aterian culture. The culture existed between 10 120 — 8 550 BC. Ibero-Maurusian people belonged to the Mechtoid anthropological type^[3].

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• The Iberomaurusian enigma: north African progenitor or dead end? Irish J.D.
• (French) Diversité mitochondriale de la population de Taforalt(12.000 ans BP – Maroc), Kéfi at al 2005

[edit] References

• (French) D. Lubell, « Continuité et changement dans l'Épipaléolithique du Maghreb », in : Le Paléolithique en Afrique, l'histoire la plus longue, Artcom' , Errance, 2005, ISBN 2-87772-297-X