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Frequency of Spina Bifida Occulta in Prehistoric Human Skeletons

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IN a cave at Taforalt, in the Beni Znassen country of north-eastern Morocco not far from Oujda, the Abbé J. Roche excavated about 80 adult and more than 100 infantile skeletons of the Mechta-Afalou type, associated with an Ibero-Maurusian industry (Epipalæolithic). These remains give a carbon-14 date of 10,500–12,070 years according to the layers.

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FEREMBACH, D. Frequency of Spina Bifida Occulta in Prehistoric Human Skeletons. Nature 199, 100–101 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199100a0

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