Bone retouchers and technological continuity in the Middle Stone Age of North Africa by Turner, E, Humphrey, L, Bouzouggar, A, Barton, N

“…Evidence for specialised bone tools has recently been reported for the Middle Stone Age of North Africa [one], which complements similar finds of slightly younger age in South Africa [two, three]. …”

90,000 year-old specialised bone technology in the Aterian Middle Stone Age of North Africa by Bouzouggar, A, Humphrey, LT, Barton, N, Parfitt, SA, Balzan, L, Schwenninger, J-L, Hajraoui, MA, Nespoulet, R, Bello, SM

“…In this paper we report on a bone artefact from Aterian Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits in Dar es-Soltan 1 cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. …”

North African Origins of Symbolically Mediated Behaviour and the Aterian by Barton, N, d'Errico, F

“…The appearance of personal ornaments in the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age of North Africa has been widely recognised as indicating that archaic modern humans in this region had developed sophisticated ways of sharing, storing and transmitting coded information within and across groups. …”

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago. by Osborne, A, Vance, D, Rohling, E, Barton, N, Rogerson, M, Fello, N

“…These corridors would explain scattered findings at desert oases of Middle Stone Age Aterian lithic industries with bifacial and tanged points that can be linked with industries further to the east and as far north as the Mediterranean coast. …”

The origin and development of the Pleistocene LSA in Northwest Africa: A case study from Grotte des Pigeons (Taforalt), Morocco by Hogue, J, Joshua Hogue

“…<p>This thesis examines variation within the microlith industries of the Later Stone Age (LSA) of Northwest Africa, around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) until the onset of the Holocene, between &amp;Tilde;25 - 11.5 ka. …”