The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n'Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco)

Broich, Manuel ORCID: 0000-0003-0450-7135, Poti, Alessandro, Linstaedter, Joerg, Gibaja, Juan F., Mazzucco, Niccolo ORCID: 0000-0002-9315-3625, Conesa, Margarita Vadillo, Mikdad, Abdeslam and Weniger, Gerd-Christian . The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n'Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco). Afr. Archaeol. Rev.. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1572-9842

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DOI:10.1007/s10437-020-09377-8

Abstract

Archaeological research has been carried out in the Eastern Rif (Morocco) since 1995 by a collaborative Moroccan-German research team. A major topic of the project is the transition from hunting-gathering to food production and related cultural developments. Innovations such as pottery and domesticated species appeared around 7.6 ka calBP. The cultivation of cereals and pulses is evident at that time. Two of the most important sites in the area are Ifri Oudadane and Ifri n'Etsedda. Both provide Epipaleolithic as well as Neolithic deposits. While innovative technologies such as pottery production and cultivation indicate external influences, lithic artifacts demonstrate local technological and behavioral traditions. Therefore, the study of lithic industries is crucial to understanding the nature of cultural continuity and discontinuity between the hunting-gathering and agricultural populations in the Eastern Rif. Ifri n'Etsedda provides two distinct Epipaleolithic deposits and thus offers the opportunity to study possible changes throughout the Epipalaeolithic and relationship to the later Early Neolithic (ENC). In combination with the earlier phases of Early Neolithic assemblages (ENA, ENB) at Ifri Oudadane, we are now in a better position to understand the development of early-to-mid Holocene lithic technology in the Eastern Rif. We show that the lithic record of Ifri n'Etsedda does not indicate any significant change in raw material supply, blank production, and tool distribution from the Early Epipaleolithic to the Early Neolithic B. Therefore, we argue for behavioral continuity from the Epipaleolithic to the Neolithic period. In contrast, the assemblages of the Early Neolithic C show changes in lithic technology.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Broich, Manuel	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-0450-7135	UNSPECIFIED
Poti, Alessandro	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Linstaedter, Joerg	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Gibaja, Juan F.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mazzucco, Niccolo	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-9315-3625	UNSPECIFIED
Conesa, Margarita Vadillo	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mikdad, Abdeslam	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Weniger, Gerd-Christian	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED