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- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Modern Africa and Overview of Late Cenozoic Paleoenvironments
- Part II Southern Africa
- Part III Eastern and Central Africa
- Part IV Northern Africa
- 36 The Northern African Sites: Paleoenvironmental Syntheses
- 37 Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco: The Richest Fossil Site in North Africa at the Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary
- 38 Tighennif (Ternifine), Algeria: Environments of the Earliest Human Fossils of North Africa in the late Early Pleistocene
- 39 Early Homo on the Atlantic Shore: The Thomas I and Oulad Hamida 1 Quarries, Morocco
- Volume References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
37 - Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco: The Richest Fossil Site in North Africa at the Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary
from Part IV - Northern Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Modern Africa and Overview of Late Cenozoic Paleoenvironments
- Part II Southern Africa
- Part III Eastern and Central Africa
- Part IV Northern Africa
- 36 The Northern African Sites: Paleoenvironmental Syntheses
- 37 Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco: The Richest Fossil Site in North Africa at the Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary
- 38 Tighennif (Ternifine), Algeria: Environments of the Earliest Human Fossils of North Africa in the late Early Pleistocene
- 39 Early Homo on the Atlantic Shore: The Thomas I and Oulad Hamida 1 Quarries, Morocco
- Volume References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The quarry in which the paleontological site of Ahl al Oughlam (33°34′11″ N, 7°30′44″ W) is located was previously known as “carrière Déprez” and was investigated in 1953 by Biberson (1961a, 1961b). It was one of the numerous quarries that were worked at that time to provide building materials for the developing Casablanca city. A marine level assigned to the Messaoudian yielded to this author a rich fauna of mollusks of “Senegalian” type, thus contributing to the precise regional stratigraphic frame and paleoclimatic conditions at the time. However, its main interest was the discovery, at the base of this level (Biberson, 1961b, plate 11), of broken pebbles that Biberson considered as a man-made lithic industry referable to an archaic stage of the pebble culture.
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- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution , pp. 468 - 474Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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