(Fwd) Re: african bone tools

[Alice Choyke]

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From:                   Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall at ed.ac.uk>
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Subject:                Re: african bone tools

Alice Choyke wrote:

>        Can anyone help me with information on bone tool assemblages from
>Africa. I have to write a small article on this subject and except for some
>Middle Paleolithic stuff from South Africa and the Kalambo Falls material I
>have no idea what work has been done. I have worked on material from
>Kermo but there must be something inbetween.
>
Bone tools are not uncommon in MSA and LSA sites in Sub-Saharan Africa,
and in Upper Palaeolithic, Epi-Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites in North
Africa. I don't know of any overall synthesis; I suspect it will be a
matter of trawling through individual excavation reports. There was also
widespread use of shells (marine, freshwater and ostrich egg) for
toolmaking.

Two recent articles that may be of interest (since they are crucial to
the debate on the origin of H. sapiens) are:

Science 268 (1995): 495-6, 548-56 -- on the dating of the Katanda barbed
points.

Before Farming 2002/2 (3): 1-16 -- on the Broken Hill (Kabwe Cave) finds.


Best wishes

C

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