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The oldest human expansions in Eurasia Favouring and limiting factors, international Congress,, Paris : France (2008)

Hominid Cave at Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, Morocco): recent findings and their context.

Jean-Paul Raynal 1, Fatima-Zohra Sbihi Alaoui 2, Abderrahim Mohib 2, Mohssine El Graoui 2, 3, David Lefevre 4, Jean-Pierre Texier 1, Denis Geraads 5, Jean-Jacques Hublin 6, Tanya Smith 6, 7, Paul Tafforeau 8, Mehdi Zouak 2, Rainer Grün 9, Edward J. Rhodes 10, Stephen Eggins 9, Camille Deaujard 1, Paul Fernandes 1, Rosalia Gallotti 11, Saida Hossini 12, Alain Queffelec 1

(2008-11-26)

The Thomas Quarry I, first investigated by P. Biberson (1961a and b), was made famous in 1969 with the discovery by Ph. Beriro of a half-mandible, first attributed to Atlanthropus mauritanicus by Ennouchi (1969), but more recently considered as a representative of Homo rhodesiensis (Hublin, 2001). Four teeth of Homo have been recovered in stratigraphic unit 4 between 1994 and 2005. The first right upper premolar discovered in 1994 has been dated using laser ablation ICP-MS. Combining the ESR and U-series data for the modelling of the U-uptake (Grün et al. 1988), an US/ESR age of 501+94 -76 ka is obtained (with associated p-values of 1.43 ± 0.59 and 0.75 ± 0.45 for enamel and dentine, respectively).

1:	de la Préhistoire à l'Actuel, Cultures, Environnement, Anthropologie (PACEA)
	CNRS : UMR5199 – Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2:	Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP)
	Ministère de la culture
3:	Ministère de la Culture, Direction du Patrimoine Culturel, Centre National du Patrimoine Rupestre, Marrakech, Maroc
	Aucune
4:	Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM)
	CNRS : UMR5140 – Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – INRAP
5:	Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces (DEHIPE)
	CNRS : UPR2147
6:	Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute
	Max Planck Institute
7:	Department of Anthropology [Havard University]
	University of Harvard
8:	Laboratoire de Géobiologie, Biochronologie et Paléontologie Humaine, UMR 6046
	Université de Poitiers
9:	Research School of Earth Sciences and Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
	Australian National University
10:	Department of Environmental & Geographical Sciences
	Manchester Metropolitan University
11:	Dipartimento Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell'Antichità, Sezione di Paletnologia
	Aucune – Università di Roma “ La Sapienza ”
12:	Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géologie
	Université Moulay Ismaïl

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Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory Sciences of the Universe/Earth Sciences

Keyword(s): Morocco – Casablanca – Middle Pleistocene – Thomas Quarry – Homo rhodesiensis – laser ablation ICP-MS

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