S21A



S21A

Room 1.63

North African deep histories (c. 15,000–3000 BP): People, environment, and adaptation session in honour of Ginette Aumassip and David Lubell / Histoires profondes d’Afrique du Nord (env. 15 000–3 000 BP) : populations, environnement et adaptation Session en l’honneur de Ginette Aumassip et David Lubell

Session organizers: The members of the ACSPT-UISPP Commission

S21A, Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 18:00, Room 1.63

9:00-9:20 - Reading deep time across North Africa: in memory of Ginette Aumassip and David Lubell / Barich B. E., Sari L.

9:20-9:40 - Sharpening the picture: The Iberomaurusian bladelets from Afalou Bou Rhummel (Algeria) / Akretche M., Porraz G., Bracco J.-P., Hachi S.

9:40-10:00 - From the last hunter-gatherers to the first farmers in Northwestern Africa: New insights from the Medjez II site (Eastern Algeria) / Merzoug S., Aouimeur S., Djellid A., Aoudia L.

10:00-10:20 - Nouvelles recherches à Bounouara, une occupation Épipaléolithique de l’Algérie orientale / Bahra N., Merzoug S., Aouimer S., Koucha A.

10:20-10:40 - Evolution des industries lithiques holocènes en Tunisie Septentrionale : Le Cas de l’Abri de Damous / Belhouchet L., Aouadi N.

10:40-11:00 - Pigeon Cave (Algeria): An example of human adaptation to the transition of the Terminal Pleistocene/Holocene in the Maghreb/ Sam Y., Merzoug S., Stoetzel E., Aouimeur S., Djerrab A.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Holocene human trophic position at Hattab II (Rif, Morocco): A taxon-free isotopic approach / Grandal-d'Anglade A., Iken S., García-Vázquez A., Bouzouggar A., González-Fortes G.

11:50-12:10 - Diet, health, and broad-spectrum subsistence strategies in the Western Maghreb from the Late Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene / Imposimato N., Salazar-García D., Radini A., Oujaa A., Benattia H., Ben Ncer A., Bokbot Y., Mikdad A., Lucarini G.

12:10-12.30 - Expanding Oued Beht: Final Neolithic complexity and the emergence of defensive architecture in Bronze Age, Northwestern Morocco / Lucarini G., Farr L., Radi M., Brucato A., Wilkinson T., Bokbot Y., Broodbank C.

12:30-12:50 - Stone tool production and distribution at Oued Beht (Morocco) /   Rega F. M., Radi M., Lombardi L., Hamon C., Bokbot Y., Broodbank C., Lucarini G.

12:50-13:10 - The Holocene ‘Green Sahara’ as never seen before: The microvertebrate assemblage of Tin Hanakaten (SE Algeria) / Stoetzel E., Chaid Saoudi Y.

13:10-13:30 - Place de Tin Hanakaten dans le Peuplement Néolithique Saharien / Hadjouis D., Aumassip G., Heim J.-L.

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Early-Mid Holocene pottery, an element of diagnosis in Central Sahara Late prehistory / Messili L., Sari L.

14:50-15:10 - Hommage à Madame Ginette Aumassip. La Grotte de Telem Fezza: un refuge mémoriel face aux changements climatiques sahariens durant l’Holocène Moyen / Amara I.

15:10-15:30 - Telem Fezza: traces d’un Sahara humide / Damouche Y., Amara I., Bentaleb I., Hadjouis D., Berkani H.

15:30-15:50 - De quoi la rareté des représentations de végétaux dans l’art rupestre du Sahara serait-elle révélatrice ? / Dupuy C.

15:50-16:10 - The wild fauna in the prehistoric rock art of the Central Sahara: gazelles and antelopes / Zampetti D.

16:10-16:30 - Revealing Rajih: Holocene settlement on the edge of the Farafra Depression, Egypt / Lucarini G., Brucato A., Hamdan M. A., Pavone D., Venir I., Barich B. E.

16:30-17:00 - Coffee break

17:00-17:20 - Beyond the Pharaohs: Holocene lithic production in the Western Wadis of Thebes (Egypt) / Lombardi L., Pelegrin J., Hallinan E., Bunbury J., Brucato A., Litherland P., Lucarini G.

17:20-17:40 - Small objects, big questions: reassessing ceramic nails in Early Egypt—Evidence from Tell el-Farkha / Mączyńska A., Dębowska-Ludwin J.

17:40-18:00 - Why change nothing? Technological Conservatism and Continuity in Pottery from Neolithic to the Chalcolithic Tradition in Lower Egypt / Mączyńska A.