Grotte des Pigeons, also known as Taforalt Cave or Ghar Ifri n'Tafoughalt, opens in the Beni Snassen mountains near Taforalt and Berkane. It is one of North Africa's most important prehistoric archives. Archaeological layers record changing human occupation over tens of thousands of years, including Middle Stone Age industries and much later Iberomaurusian communities.
The cave first entered modern archaeological records in the early 20th century. Major excavations were conducted by Armand Ruhlmann in the 1940s, Jean Roche in later decades, and a Moroccan–British project led by researchers from Morocco's National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage and the University of Oxford from 2003. Scientific value comes from controlled layers, not simply from the chamber visitors can see.