West African Late Stone Age

Africahunter-gatherers
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The West African Late Stone Age Tradition is located in sub-Saharan West Africa beginning earlier than 13,000, perhaps as early as 30,000 BP, and continuing to 4000 BP. The people were mobile hunter-gatherers; during the Holocene there is extensive evidence for fishing, especially along the Niger River. They used stone and bone tools, including microlithic stone technology. Late in the tradition the people began using pottery, and there was increased use of oil-rich seeds and the fruit of the oil palm where available.

Identifier
Region
  • Africa
Subregion
  • Western Africa
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Countries
  • Benin
  • Cameroon
  • General Africa
  • Gambia, The
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Liberia
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo
  • Burkina Faso