Abstract: International audience; This paper provides new data on the human-mediated introduction of chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus Linnaeus, 1758), black rat (Rattus rattus Linnaeus, 1758) and house mouse (M. musculus domesticus Schwarz & Schwarz, 1943) on the stratified site of Rirha, located in the Gharb plain, Morocco. The Mauretanian Tell, with its mud brick houses, streets, kitchens and dump areas have been excavated extensively and benefitted of sieving which provided clear evidence of the presence of the galliform and of the two murids in 1st ...
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