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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 Lydenburg Heads are seven terracotta heads that were discovered in association with other pottery artifacts in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa.They are among the oldest known African Iron Age artworks from South of the equator. [1]
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.
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 ...
Pottery firing mound in Kalabougou, Mali, a very large form of firing pit. Removing the fired pots, Kalabougou, 2010. Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE, [1] [2] while the earliest known kiln dates to around 6000 BCE, and was found at the Yarim Tepe site in ...
Tana Ware has been found at many East African archaeological sites over the course of several decades. The geographic distribution of this pottery tradition is widespread, covering the East African coast from Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south, as well as the central hinterland inland. [4]