Late Palæolithic Finds in East Africa

Whilst engaged in arranging the Stone Age collections of the Cambridge University Museum of Archæology and Ethnology a series of implements from Naivasha “turned up.” This locality lies a little to the East of lake Victoria Nyanza. The tools shew certain Upper Palæolithic characters and it is therefore important to note their existence. Some folk consider the continent of Africa to be a museum of cultures, others a cradle. In either case it is necessary to collect any information as to the possible lines of cultural movement. The paintings of the Spanish group 2 in rock shelters in Eastern Spain are in all probability quaternary in age and date from some moment in Upper Palæolithic times; but the Bushman art of South Africa bears such a remarkable resemblance to this Eastern Spanish group, both generally and in detail, that some connection between the artists who made them seems probable—perhaps both were derived from the same late Palæolithic stock, the Bushman being a survival to our own day.