Iberomaurusien

Ibéromaurusien skeleton of northern Morocco displayed at Bonn museum
Rabat, Aug. 10 - The "ibéromaurusien" skeleton discovered in the Ifri n'Ammar cave, Afsou commune, in the northern Province of Nador, is among the exhibits of the international expo held in the Bonn-based Rheinisches LandesMuseum, a communiqué of the Moroccan Culture Department said.
The five-month exhibition is showing "all the human adventure, either scientific or technical, in paleontology and archaelogy », the press release said.
Study findings show the skeleton is of a 21 to 25 year-old and 1.78 m tall man of the iberomaurusian population, which lived in North Africa in years 22000 to 9000 BC.
The man was buried in a sitting position and "had two front teeth removed, which according to iberomaurusian tradition is a sign of passage from puberty to manhood."
The human remains were discovered in archaeological excavations made by a group of scientists of the Moroccan "Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine » (INSAP), in collaboration with the German "Institute of Archaeology" (KAAK, DAI).
The group of researchers was headed by Moroccan Abdeslam Mikdad and German Josef Eiwanger.
The Rheinische Landesmuseum, founded in 1820, displays exhibits and documents from various eras (from the Stone Age to the present day) and Rhenish history. A 50,000 year old skull of a Neanderthal, various Roman soldiers' grave stones as well as the huge rock altar of the Hercules Saxanus from the Brohltal are only a few examples of the extensive collection.
The painting collections include works by the artists Barthel Bruyn Snr. P.P. Rubens and A.van Dyck. In addition, there is a section which exclusively deals with contemporary Rhenish art.
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