The Acheulean Civilization in Morocco

 

◙ The Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean) is a civilization whose traces have been known in Morocco for at least 700,000 years. The major discoveries concerning this period are made in Casablanca (Carrière Thomas, Oulad Hamida, Sidi Abderrahman…).

The characteristic tools of this period consist of arranged rollers, bifaces, cleavers and nucleus ...

 

◙ A Moroccan-French scientific team has discovered an unprecedented technique dating back a million years, in the ancient phases of Acheulean civilization in Africa, at the "Thomas I" archaeological site in Casablanca.

 

◙ This is the discovery of small flint stones no longer than 6 centimeters in length, worked in a special technique known as "Bipolar Anvil Percussion" which aims to make very small elongated tools,indicates Monday June 08, 2020 a press release from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports - Department of Culture of Morocco.

 

◙ These flint tools were discovered at the Acheulean archaeological level (level L1) on the site of "Thomas I" in Casablanca which dates at least a million years ago, noting that two-sided stone axes and other large tools made of quartzite stone, such as three-faceted axes, spherical and hemispherical shaped cores, various polyhedron cores, concentric and circular carving cores and several hammers have also been discovered at the archaeological site.