A site some 200 km southwest of Algiers which has yielded human skeletons of Mechta-Afalou type associated with a stone industry of Iberomaurusian affinities. Some of the burials were accompanied by red ochre and perforated shell ornaments, often covered with settings of stones and, in one case, bones of wild cattle. By about 8000 be the Iberomaurusian was replaced by a local blade industry which has been named Columnatan.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied