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Prior to 9400 BCE, Niger-Congo speakers independently created and used matured ceramic technology [27] [28] (e.g., pottery, pots) to contain and cook grains (e.g., Digitaria exilis, pearl millet); [27] [29] ethnographically and historically, West African women have been the creators of pottery in most West African ceramic traditions [30] [31 ...
Although the majority of wavy line and dotted wavy line pottery examples come from these two sites, additional pieces have been discovered across the north and east of Africa. The oldest evidence comes from the sites of Tagalagal and Adrar Bous 10 in Niger where thermoluminescence dates hint to ca. 10.000 BC, while the oldest more reliable C14 ...
The oldest pottery in the world outside of east Asia can be found in Africa. In 2007, Swiss archaeologists discovered pieces of some of the oldest pottery in Africa at Ounjougou in the central region of Mali, dating to at least 9,400 BC. [ 6 ]
Some of the earliest pottery in Africa has also been found in the Sahara and is associated with hunter/gatherer populations. [51] By 9,400 BCE, in Ounjougou, central Mali, pottery is thought to been independently invented by local hunter-gatherers as they became more sedentary and began to intensively gather local wild grains (such as millet). [52]
During the Holocene, Niger-Congo speakers independently created pottery in Ounjougou, Mali [10] [11] [12] – the earliest pottery in Africa [13] – by at least 9400 BCE, [10] and along with their pottery, [13] as well as wielding independently invented bows and arrows, [14] [15] migrated into the Central Sahara, [13] which became their ...
Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.
The archaeology of Igbo-Ukwu is the study of an archaeological site located in a town of the same name: Igbo-Ukwu, an Igbo town in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria.As a result of these findings, three excavation areas at Igbo-Ukwu were opened in 1959 and 1964 by Charles Thurstan Shaw: Igbo Richard, Igbo Isaiah, and Igbo Jonah.
Takarkori rockshelter is one of two sites where the earliest evidence of plant processing in pottery has been found, [3] is the first Saharan site where ancient DNA was able to be extracted, particularly from two interred individuals, [4] and is also a site with artifacts which include bone tools, stone tools, wooden tools, pottery, fiber goods ...