Mousteroid was a culture occurring during the period 80,000 - 50,000 BP of Central, Southern and

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. Examples of this culture are the tool-industry of the

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, known from sites at Zenebi,

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and Tiemassas in

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Dakar and Rufisque

The most important of the Western Senegal sites is Pte. de Fann in

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. Classified Mousteroid, indicating similarities to industry

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in form but neither akin to, nor at a temporal parallel. Other sites about Dakar and

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, were part of a culture that had not occurred for sufficient duration for tools to be found at differing depths in the ground (''without stratification'').Oliver Davies ''West Africa before the Europeans: archaeology & prehistory'' - 364 pages ''Methuen's handbooks of archaeology'' references (Corbeil ''NA'' 17 (1943)
Corbeil R., Mauny R., Charbonnier J., 1948
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References

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