Rachgoun 2: Geomorphological and Lithostratigraphic Framework

Mourad Betrouni

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Rachgoun 2: Geomorphological and Lithostratigraphic Framework

Mourad Betrouni

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Summary: Half a century after the work of the prehistorian G. Camps on the “Iberomaurusian” site of Rachgoun, located on the northwest coast of Algeria, nothing has come to confirm, supplement or revisit the conclusions of this author, which still remain in force. In 2017, interest in this deposit was revived, with a view to relaunching prehistoric research in the Algerian north-west (Oran). In this contribution, we have approached the subject, from a geosystemic point of view, under the angle of geomorphology and Quaternary geology, to offer us guarantees of access to appropriate readings of Rachgoun's kjokkennmodding. Two morpho-sedimentary groups were identified (q1 4c and qD) and their connection with the classification frameworks in force, carried out. They are the expression of a Sicilian-Tyrrhenian geography, which ended with the development of a rhythmic phenomenon "sandstone-red silt dunes", witness to variations in sea level, in relation to the glacio- eustatism and neotectonics. Thus, the current landscape of the Rachgoun region is the expression of a recent geography, established in the Tyrrhenian, in a new morpho-sedimentary cycle, which will lead to a new configuration of the relief. In this chronostratigraphic framework, the prehistoric site of Rachgoun, previously qualified as Iberomaurusian (epipaleolithic), occupies the first part of the Holocene (early Rharbien), dated from C14 to 9430 and 9490 years BP. A chronological position which commands a new archaeological reading.

Published in	History Research (Volume 9, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.history.20210902.12
Page(s)	104-117
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Rachgoun, Iberomaurusian Kjokenmodding, Lithostratigraphy, Geomorphology

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