78,000 year cave record from East Africa shows early cultural innovations
Wed, May 9, 2018 SHARE ON: TwitterFacebook
The first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya ranges from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, showing gradual changes in cultural, technological and symbolic innovations beginning at 67,000 years ago.
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY—An international, interdisciplinary group of scholars working along the East African coast have discovered a major cave site which records substantial activities of hunter-gatherers and later, Iron Age communities. Detailed environmental research has demonstrated that human occupations occur in a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, adding new information about the habitats exploited by our species, and indicating that populations sought refuge in a relatively stable environment. Prior to this cave excavation, little information was available about the last 78,000 years from coastal East Africa, with the majority of archaeological research focused on the Rift Valley and in South Africa.
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/78000-year-cave-record-from-east-africa-shows-early-cultural-innovations/
