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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 ...
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 ...
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 tool assemblage found resembles that of other Northern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic (settlement) sites. [85] In 1963, over 3,000 Neolithic tools were uncovered, the vast majority of excellent quality flint, only a handful of obsidian. Cores, various blades, flakes, scrapers, burins, and projectile points, were the most common tool types ...
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]