Amy Clark, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and a member of the ASPR’s Program Board, is conducting research at the sites of Bizmoune Cave and Jorf el Hamam in Morocco. Large-scale investigation at Bizmoune cave began in 2014, and the research team have since recovered the earliest evidence of beads (made from marine…
Abri des Merveilles
One of the ASPR’s first excavations took place at the “Abri Des Merveilles”, which is located near the commune of Sergeac in south-west France in the Castel-Merle valley, where it is one of numerous paleolithic sites (O’Hara et al., 2015). It was first discovered in 1878, and the ASPR began excavating there in 1924 after…