Abstract
This paper concerns the origin, evolution and fate of the Iberomaurusian, a culture of the Upper Paleolithic or Late Stone Age in North Africa. Recent data have clearly demonstrated that its age is increasingly close to the end of the Aterian, another culture of the Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic in North Africa. For this culture, we now have a wealth of information concerning the environment, the non-meat diet of human groups, the treatment of their dead and, above all, their fossil DNA.
We will therefore present these new results and try to understand the future of the Iberomaurusian culture, and especially its possible filiations and ruptures with Holocene cultures in the Maghreb.
