Experiment of hide processing using flint !

Looking at the use-wear reference collection at Material Culture Studies Lab, Leiden university!

Fantastic talk today Leiden Archaeology by DJELLAL Youssef updating us of the work done on the MSA in 🇲🇦 👏👏 abouzouggar Abdeljalil Bouzouggar João Marreiros @NunofBicho

Some nice lithic from our last survey in Northern eastern Morocco !

A Cave from a Cave: Oued Laou, Oulad Ali Mansour Valley, Northern Morocco.

Selecting Bizmoune lithics that will be submitted to the use-wear study at TraCEr lab, MONREPOS – Schicht für Schicht zum Ich . ICArEHB The Leakey Foundation

Today at Monrepos, we undertook experiment on fresh hide using the same variety of quartzite used by Aterian groups (MSA) at Rhafas cave, Northern eastern Morocco !

Celebrating the 10th Traceolab Anniversary at Liège University!

Having an amazing time looking at the ESA lithics of Thomas I quarry, Morocco !

From Wed to Fri last week, ICArEHB hosted the workshop "Developing Guidelines, Protocols, and a Collaborative Platform for Use-Wear Analysis" at Universidade do Algarve, in Faro. We were honored to host the event and extend our gratitude to all the researchers for joining us!

Early 2024 experiments at ICArEHB ! Removing meat and fat from cow ribs' using Oued Lksob's flint (central western Morocco).

Returning to INSAP, to discuss my Ph.D. project and conduct experiments and microscopic use-wear analysis on lithics was an immense pleasure. Many thanks to INSAP and to all the colleagues!

Experiments in progress: pigmented hide scraping!

Bizmoune under the Microscope 🔬: We are running the first use-wear analysis on the MSA lithics from Bizmoune cave. The first results are very promising !

A new paper from our lab is out 🎉🤖 Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) ICArEHB

Wrapping up our latest season of experiments! Exploring marine shell procurement along the Atlantic shoreline, ~12 km from Bizmoune Cave (Essaouira, Morocco).

Just out! Our first publication on use-wear analysis of quartzite tools from the MSA sequence at Rhafas Cave! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tracing Homo sapiens' behavior in North Africa ! #BizmouneCave #Aterian #UsewearAnalysis #LithicStudies

A rewarding and intense week at SAFA2025 Conference. I had the chance to present my use-wear analysis results from the MSA of Bizmoune cave and co-organize a session about use-wear analysis applied in Pleistocene. Greatful for the inspiring talks and discussions!

Together with ECHCHERIF BAAMRANI Othman , we’re combining typo-technological data with use-wear analysis of MSA lithics from Bizmoune Cave! The results are truly fascinating, more to come soon! 🔬