Medium Stone Age human remains unearthed in Central Atlas Mountains

A graveyard that comprises several different kinds of tombs and that could go back to prehistory times was discovered in the Azrou region, in the Atlas Mountains, North-Central Morocco, said a communiqué of the Moroccan Institute for Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP).

An INSAP team also unearthed several other archaeological sites close to the towns of El Hajeb, Timehdit and Ain Louh, all located in the same region of the Mountains, since it started works last September.

Excavations in these regions helped the team determine the sites could have been inhabited by humans in the medium stone age (120.000 to 40.000 years before History.

At the Ain Maarouf site close to El Hajeb, the team discovered a number of caves used by humans between the medium stone to the modern stone ages, as well as remains that could belong to Homo-erectus man and to several animals like hippopotamuses, elephants