Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa: A Discussion

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 190 (4216) ◽  
pp. 809-810
Author(s):  
Charles E. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age

Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa: A Discussion

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 190 (4216) ◽  
pp. 809-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age

Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 187 (4178) ◽  
pp. 740-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Wendorf ◽  
R. L. Laury ◽  
C. C. Albritton ◽  
R. Schild ◽  
C. V. Haynes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age

New Evidence for the Expansion of an Upper Pleistocene Population out of East Africa, from the Site of Station One, Northern Sudan

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey I. Rose
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
East African ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Chipped Stone

Evidence for a hunter-gatherer range-expansion is indicated by the site of Station One in the northern Sudan, a surface scatter of chipped stone debris systematically collected almost 40 years ago, though not studied until present. Based on technological and typological correlates in East Africa, the predominant use of quartz pebbles for raw material, and the production of small bifacial tools, the site can be classified as Middle Stone Age. While often appearing in East African assemblages, quartz was rarely used in Nubia, where ferrocrete sandstone and Nile pebble were predominantly used by all other Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age populations. Additionally, façonnage reduction is characteristic of lithic technology in East Africa in the late Middle Stone Age, while Middle Palaeolithic industries in the Nile Valley display only core reduction. It is proposed this assemblage represents a range-expansion of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers from East Africa during an Upper Pleistocene pluvial.

scholarly journals Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 28-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tyler Faith ◽  
Christian A. Tryon ◽  
Daniel J. Peppe ◽  
Emily J. Beverly ◽  
Nick Blegen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin

Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa: A Discussion

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 190 (4216) ◽  
pp. 809-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age
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