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In sub-Saharan Africa, more especially in the eastern and central areas, the study of Stone Age archaeology was largely inspired by pioneer researchers in South Africa. South Africa was the first, and only major, part of the sub-continent where European colonizers and settlers came into contact with indigenous people who regularly used stone tools. By the end of the century a great deal of artifactual material, most of it poorly documented, had been amassed in museum and private collections. This chapter provides the archaeological evidence for the inception and progress of the Later Stone Age cultures in each region of sub-Saharan Africa up to the time of the first appearance of techniques of food production. West Africa is separated from the rest of sub-Saharan Africa on the one side by the densely forested Congo basin and on the other by the vast northern area, stretching between Cameroun and the southern part of the Sudan Republic.

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6 - The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa

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