Mousteroid Explained

Mousteroid was a culture occurring during the period 80,000 - 50,000 BP of Central, Southern and East Africa. Examples of this culture are the tool-industry of the Middle Paleolithic in West Africa,^{[1] [2]} known from sites at Zenebi, Nigeria^[3] and Tiemassas in Senegal.^{[4] [5]}

Dakar and Rufisque

The most important of the Western Senegal sites is Pte. de Fann in Dakar.^[6] Classified Mousteroid, indicating similarities to industry Mousterian in form but neither akin to, nor at a temporal parallel. Other sites about Dakar and Rufisque, were part of a culture that had not occurred for sufficient duration for tools to be found at differing depths in the ground (without stratification).^[7]

Notes and References

1. O. Davies (1964)
2. J. D. Clark (1967)
3. G. W. Barendson et al (1965)
4. R. Guillot and C. Descamps (1969)
5. C. T. SHAW THE PRE-HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA in Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory 819 pages University of California Press, 1981 [Retrieved 2012-01-09]
6. Corbeil 1943
7. Oliver Davies West Africa before the Europeans: archaeology & prehistory - 364 pages Methuen's handbooks of archaeology references (Corbeil NA 17 (1943) Corbeil R., Mauny R., Charbonnier J., 1948 , Richard 1955) Taylor & Francis, 1967 [Retrieved 2012-01-09]