This paper provides a summary of all available numerical ages from contexts of the
Moroccan Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic and reviews some of the most important …

We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died
out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we …

The present Libyan territory extends over a large area that goes from the Mediterranean
coast to the Saharan Desert. Aterian sites were found in the central Saharan mountain range …

North Africa is quickly emerging as one of the more important regions yielding information
on the origins of modern Homo sapiens. Associated with significant fossil hominin remains …

ABSTRACT New excavations at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, began in 2007 and
continued through 2010. This site, originally excavated by Roche in the 1950s, contained …

Pollen and clay mineralogical analyses of a Holocene sequence from Sebkha Boujmel
(southern Tunisia) trace the climatic and environmental dynamics in the lower arid …

This article presents and discusses the most recent data on the Aterian in Africa and
correlates them with the archaeological evidence from southwestern Europe. It provides an …

In order to assess heavy metal pollutants in Sabratha coastal sediments, Mediterranean
Sea, Libya, 30 sediment samples were collected for Fe, Cu, Pb, Mn, Cd, Co, Ni and Zn …

The palaeoclimatic evolution of northwestern Libya has been deduced from the study of the
palustrine and aeolian sediments. The Holocene environmental variations have been …