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A reconsideration of the West African macrolithic conundrum: new factory sites and an associated settlement in the Vallée du Serpent, Mali
African archaeological review • 12 • Published In 1994 • Pages: 73-104
By: MacDonald, Kevin C., Allsworth-Jones, P. (Philip).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Four sites were found during a survey of Vallée du Serpent, Mali: Sirakoro-Ancien, Ntyébougou, Giré-Ouest, and Giré-Est. These sites are compared with other lithic sites throughout West Africa that date from 14,000-1500 years ago. Both macrolithic and microlithic industries were present during the Holocene; the technology employed is not a good temporal marker. Instead, the authors find that a particular type of non-microlithic faceted platform (“Levallois”) industry is associated with the forest zone.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Geography
- Lithic industries
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 9000-6000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vallée du Serpent, Koulikoro Region, Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kevin C. MacDonald and P. Allsworth-Jones
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84650500
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Late Stone Age