ABSTRACT
In a symposium on primitive man and Pleistocene stratigraphy in the Mediterranean basin, held at Burg Wartenstein in 1960. This chapter offers a picture of the evolution of the Moroccan Paleolithic within the framework of the Atlantic Pleistocene. The most characteristic fossils are Purpura haemastoma and Patella safiana, which are still found on the Moroccan coast. The chapter summarizes the chronology established by geographers, geologists, and prehistorians on the morphological, stratigraphic, and paleontological data, in order to incorporate with them certain archaeological discoveries (Biberson 1960a). If the human skeletal remains of Atlantic Morocco are still rare, stone industries are very well represented and permit us to trace the evolution of prehistoric cultures from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene. An important microfauna of rodents, insectivores, and bats was collected, but it has not yet been studied and cannot be used for paleoclimatic conclusions.
