Resources

Recent CAVES Project Publications

  • Horn, E.L., McLean, D., Pimentel, A., Pacheco, J.M., Aguiar, S., Manning, C.J., Barton, N., Smith, V.C. and CAVES Project Team (2025). Geochemical characterisation of major silicic explosive eruptions from the Azores in the last~ 100 kyrs. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, p.108446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108446

  • Barton, N., Bouzouggar, A., Carolin, S. and Humphrey, L., 2025. A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14312

  • McLean, D., Horn, E. L., Aguiar, S., Barton, N., Brown, R., Carolin, S., Day, C., Kuhlmann, H., Kutterolf, S., Mitsunaga, B., O’Mara, N. A., Pacheco, J. M., Pimentel, A., Ramalho, R. S., Schindlbeck‑Belo, J. C., Stoetzel, E., Styring, A., Uno, K. T., Vidyarthi, V., Xu, Y., & Smith, V. C. (2024). Opportunities to synchronise and date archaeological and climate records in Northwest Africa using volcanic ash (tephra) layers. Libyan Studies, 55, 48‑68. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2024.18 

 

Key Publications relating to the CAVES Project

  • Barton, R.N.E ., Bouzouggar, A., Collcutt, S.N, Humphrey, L.T. (eds.), 2019.  Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Africa: Excavations at Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco . Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 147. Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Regensburg. 600 pages, 280 figures.  ISBN-13: 9783 79543478  OA https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.734

  • Barton, R.N.E. , Belhouchet, L., Collcutt, S.N. et al., 2021. New insights into the late Middle Stone Age occupation of Oued el Akarit, southern Tunisia. Libyan Studies 1–24. https://doi.org/0.1017/lis.2021.9

  • Barton, R.N.E ., Collcutt, S.N., Carrión Marco, Y., et al., 2016. Reconsidering the MSA to LSA transition at Taforalt Cave (Morocco) in the light of new multi-proxy dating evidence. Quaternary International 413 (2016), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.085

  • Barton, R.N.E ., Lane, C., Albert, P.G., et al., 2015. The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 118, 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.008

  • Barton, R.N.E. , Bouzouggar, A. 2013. Hunter-gatherers of the Maghreb: 25,000-6000 years ago. In Lane, P. and Mitchell, P. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. OUP 431-443.

  • Barton, R.N.E. , d'Errico, F., 2012. North African origins of symbolically mediated behaviour and the aterian. In: Elias, S. (Ed.), Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity. In: van der Meer, J.J.M. (Ed.), Developments in Quaternary Science, vol. 16. Elsevier B.V., pp. 23–34.

  • Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Barton, N., 2020. Cultural transitions in the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age records of Northwest Africa. An overview from Morocco. In Leplongeon, A., Goder-Goldberger, M. & Pleurdeau, D. (Eds.). Not just a corridor. Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2020, Natures en Sociétés, 3, 9782856539316. ⟨10.5852/nes03⟩ . ⟨hal-03035363⟩

  • Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L.T., Barton, N. et al. 2018. 90,000 year-old specialised bone technology in the Aterian Middle Stone Age of North Africa. PLOS One, October 3, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202021

  • Bouzouggar, A., & Barton, R.N.E. 2012. The Identity and Timing of the Aterian in Morocco. In Modern Origins: A North African Perspective, eds. J.J. Hublin and S.P. Mcpherron. Dordrecht: Springer, 35–47.

  • Bouzouggar, A., N. Barton, M. Vanhaeren, F.et al., 2007. 82,000 year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior. PNAS 104 (24), 9964-9969.

  • Humphrey, L., Freyne, van de Loosdrecht, M., Hogue, J.T., Turner, E., Barton, N., Bouzouggar, A. 2019. Infant Funerary Behavior and Kinship in Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers from Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution Infant Funerary Behaviour and Kinship in Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers from Morocco. J. Human Evolution 135 (2019) 102637

  • Humphrey, L.T., De Groote, I., Barton, N., et al., 2014. Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco, PNAS, 111 (3),954–959doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111

  • Loosdrecht, M., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Barton, N., et al. 2018. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science. 360(6388), 2018, 548-552 DOI: 10.1126/science.aar8380

  • Turner, E., Humphrey, L., Bouzouggar, A., Barton N., (2020) Bone retouchers and technological continuity in the Middle Stone Age of North Africa. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0230642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230642