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For Africa south of the Sahara, African archaeology is classified in a slightly different way, with the Paleolithic generally divided into the Early Stone Age, the Middle Stone Age, and the Later Stone Age. [6] [page needed] After these three stages come the Pastoral Neolithic, the Iron Age and then later historical periods.
Homo habilis (lit. 'handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.4 million years ago to 1.4 million years ago ().
(Heidelberg Man) 0.50 Homo heidelbergensis: 1907 Germany: Daniel Hartmann Heidelberg University: Saldanha man [68] 0.50 Homo rhodesiensis: 1953 South Africa: Boxgrove Man: 0.50 [69] Homo heidelbergensis: 1994 UK: Natural History Museum: Arago 21 (Tautavel Man) 0.45 Homo erectus: 1971 France: Henry de Lumley: Ceprano Man [70] [71] 0.450±0.050 ...
Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave system, Gauteng province, South Africa (See Cradle of Humankind), dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago.
This is a list of archaeologists ... Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man; ... (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist ...
The Boskop Man is an anatomically modern human fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa. [1] The fossil was at first described as Homo capensis and considered a separate human species by Broom (1918), [2] but by the 1970s this "Boskopoid" type was widely recognized as representative of the modern Khoisan populations.
The bodies of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say.
Pages in category "Archaeologists of Africa" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Felix A. Chami; L.