The Magosian is the name given by archaeologists to an

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found in southern and eastern

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. It dates to between 10,000 and 6,000 years BC and is distinguished from its predecessors by the use of

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s and small

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s. In 1953,

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found a notable site of Magosian artifacts at Kalambo Falls, on what is now the border between

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and

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