9,000-Year-Old Workshop Yields Insight into West African Toolmaking Practices - Archaeology Magazine

9,000-Year-Old Workshop Yields Insight into West African Toolmaking Practices - Archaeology Magazine

An archaeologist excavates at the site of Ravin Blanc X in eastern Senegal's Falémé Valley. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—In many parts of the world, such as Europe, Asia, and southern and eastern Africa, archaeologists have been able to document the lives of hunter-gatherer societies that lived thousands of years ago because much of the archaeological evidence has been preserved within well-protected caves. Because of the climatic and geological conditio…

Exceptional Discovery: A 9,000-Year-Old Stone Workshop Unearthed In Senegal Sheds Light On West Africa's Prehistory - Ancient Pages

Conny Waters - MessageToEagle.com - Prehistoric populations of hunter-gatherers have been thoroughly examined in Europe, Asia, and eastern Africa, but the last population of these people in West Africa remains insufficiently documented. Now we'll know much more about hunter-gatherers of in West Africa thanks to a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) working on one […]