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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.

Shum Laka (Cameroon)

Holocene Palaeoclimates of Africa

A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum

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Evolution of Shum Laka rock shelter ( western Cameroon) since  Late Stone Age times

Holocene adaptations in West Africa

Hunters, gatherers and first farmers in West Africa

Excavations at Iwo Eleru, Ondo State, Nigeria

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Cornelissen, Els	Shum Laka (Cameroon)	1996
Hassan, Fekri A.	Holocene Palaeoclimates of Africa	1997
MacDonald, Kevin C.	A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum	1994
McIntosh, Susan Keech	Tradition summary	2022
Moeyersons, Jan J.	Evolution of Shum Laka rock shelter ( western Cameroon) since Late Stone Age times	1996
Shaw, Thurstan	Holocene adaptations in West Africa	1978
Shaw, Thurstan	Hunters, gatherers and first farmers in West Africa	1977
Shaw, Thurstan	Excavations at Iwo Eleru, Ondo State, Nigeria	1984

West African Late Stone Age

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