The first Biological Anthropology seminar this term will be next Tuesday 11 October (16:15) by Dr Louise Humphrey of the Natural History Museum, London.
Louise will give a talk entitled Continuity and change in the Iberomaurusian: New excavations at Taforalt discussing her new excavations in North West Africa that show nearly 2 million years of human occupation. More information on her talk is given below. All are welcome!
For those of you who wish to chat with Louise further, we will have dinner at The Parrot from 19:00 after the talk. If you want to attend, please let me know by Friday this week so I can book a large enough table.
For more information on Louise and her research, see: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/louise-humphrey.html

Sites North West Africa reveal evidence for intermittent human occupation covering nearly 2 million years. Grotte des Pigeons at Taforalt in Morocco is a key site for understanding changes in human economic and ritual activities during Middle and Later Stone Age. Archaeological deposits document an intensification of human activity after 15,000 cal BP, involving rapid formation of an ashy midden, systematic exploitation of wild plant resources and the use of a spatially demarcated area towards the back of the cave for human burials.