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Ibero-Maurusian, a. and n. Anthropol. and Archaeol.
Brit. |ʌɪˌbɪərəʊmaʊˈruːsɪən|, |ʌɪˌbɪərəʊmɔːˈruːsɪən|, U.S. |aɪˌbɪroʊˌmɔˈruʒ(ə)n|, |aɪˌbɪroʊˌmɑˈruʒ(ə)n|
Forms: 19– Ibero-Marusian, 19– Iberomarusian, 19– Ibero-Maurusian, 19– Ibéro-Maurusian, 19– IberoMaurusian, 19– Iberomaurusian
[‹ Ibero- comb. form + Maurusian adj., after French Ibéro-maurusien (1909 or earlier).]
A. adj. Of or relating to a late Palaeolithic people of northern Africa (and possibly also represented in southern Spain), their culture, or their stone tool industry.
1926Geogr. Jrnl. 67 44 In Neolithic times the direction from which Libya was receiving its influences was from Europe and not the reverse, as witness the apparent spread of the Ibero-Maurusian art from Spain into North Africa. 1954Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 84 120 In North Africa during the Capsian was not an identical phenomenon also present: the advent of a Mediterranean type which very rapidly and from a few nearby islets completely overwhelmed the Ibero-Maurusian race of Mechta? 1983R. D. Whitehouse Macmillan Dict. Archaeol. 225/1 Iberomaurusian assemblages are dominated by large numbers of small backed bladelets. The earliest occurrences, as at Taforalt in eastern Morocco, are of the 14th millennium bc. 1997Current Anthropol. 38 843/2 We have undertaken cluster analyses of Lalueza Fox's cranial data for all skulls and for males alone, together with..Iberomaurusian and Capsian samples from the Maghreb.
B. n.
1. A member of the Ibero-Maurusian people.
1927H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists 139 The western group of Capsians, the Ibero-Maurusians. About 11,000 b.c. some of these seem to have crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into Spain. 1980Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 21 155 Neither of these conclusions accords well with the traditional view of the ‘Iberomaurusians’ as highly mobile hunters and gatherers.
2. With the. The culture of this people, esp. their stone tool industry, characterized by its small-backed blades, dating from &c.14,000 to &c.8,000 b.c.
[1924C. D. Matthew tr. H. Obermaier Fossil Man in Spain v. 114 The Ibero-Maruetanian of western Algeria (called the ‘Ibero-Maurusien’ by French specialists).] 1934V. G. Childe New Light Most Anc. East ii. 35 In what is termed the Iberomarusian or Oranian of the northern, best watered parts of Algeria and Morocco the Atérian tradition is still in evidence. 1935Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 23 The industry is recognized to be a facies of Levalloisian culture: M. Breuil speaks of it as Moustérien évolué. In some places the remains are found underlying the Iberomaurusian. 1969G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 2) viii. 182 During the period of transition from the Late Pleistocene to Neothermal times, say between 12,000 and 7500 b.c., the flint industries of North Africa, the Oranian or Ibéro-Maurusian of Morocco and the Eastern Oranian of Cyrenaica, shared the same leading features. 1980Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 21 155 The Iberomaurusian was succeeded by a number of different Epipalaeolithic industries. |