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The Capsian culture (named after the town of Gafsa in Tunisia) was a Mesolithic culture of the Maghreb, which lasted from about 10000 BP to 6000 BP. It was concentrated mainly in modern Algeria, and Tunisia, with some sites attested in Cyrenaica (Libya). It is traditionally divided into two variants, the Capsien typique and the Capsien supérieur which are sometimes found in chronostratigraphic sequence. They represent variants of one tradition, the differences between them being both typological and technological (Lubell 2005; Rahmani 2004).