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Shum Laka (Cameroon): late Pleistone and early Holocene deposits
aspects of african archaeology : papers from the 10th congress of the panafrican association for prehistory and related studies • Harare • Published In 1996 • Pages: 256-263
By: Cornelissen, Els.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes findings in an excavation unit at the Shum Laka rock shelter; mainly non-standardized quartz microlithic tools. The site, in the vicinity of open grassland, was continuously occupied from the terminal Pleistocene into the Holocene.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Late Stone Age
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1991-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 31,700-6,870 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shum Laka rock shelter, North-West Region, Cameroon
- NotesAdditional notes
- Els Cornelissen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97980077
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Late Stone Age