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THE STONE AGE PREHISTORY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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- Author(s): Klein, Richard G.
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Annual Review of Anthropology; 1983, Vol. 12, p25-48, 24p, 2 Diagrams, 6 Graphs, 1 Map
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The article presents an outline of the Stone Age prehistory of Southern Africa. Stone artifacts that are estimated to be between 2.1 and 1.6 million years old were found in Melka Kunturé Site and other sites in the region. Most of the artifact assemblages consist of crude flakes or of flakes and elementary core tools on pebbles or angular fragments. Anthropologists assume that Homo habilis was the tool maker of the said artifacts. Earlier stone tools have been discovered from Kdada Gona in the Hadar region of Ethiopia. According to research, it was in later part of the Stone Age that people decided to use bone to manufacture formal tool types.
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