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  • Neolithic nomads at El Multaga, Upper Nubia, Sudan

  • D. Peressinotto, A. Schmitt, Y. Lecointe, R. Pouriel, F. Geus
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 78 / Issue 299 / March 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 54-60
    Print publication:
    March 2004

  • Investigations in the El Multaga area, located in Upper Nubia, brought to light Neolithic burials differing from other known local and contemporary burial sites. The skeletons lay under moundS in a very contracted positions inside pits just large enough to contain them. Grave goods are not regular and rather poor. The authors feel that such practices probably relate to local nomadic groups. The cemetery which had not been picked up by research surveys was discovered in a salvage project.

  • 4 - Western Africa, 1870–1886

  • Edited by Roland Oliver, G. N. Sanderson
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    05 September 1985, pp 208-256

  • Summary

    Indigenous African history, which still dominated most of the arena, moved at a slower rhythm than the history of the colonial advance. This chapter discusses the zone of acculturation, stretching around the coast from Senegambia to the Bay of Biafra. The cautious policies imposed from London had lost for the British the priority which was theirs as a result of the powerful colony of Sierra Leone at the southern end of the Rivières du Sud. To the east of the Bagoe and the Bandama, the Senufo, who spoke the most westerly of the Voltaic languages, were solid villagers with a truly stateless tradition. It explains the immediate hinterland which, from the upper Niger to the Volta, was open to influences from both the coast and the Sudan. The chapter focusses on the great belt of the Sudan itself, from the Senegal to Wadai, where events still seemed to move at the traditional pace.

  • 6 - The Later Stone Age in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Edited by J. Desmond Clark
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    25 February 1982, pp 410-477

  • Summary

    In sub-Saharan Africa, more especially in the eastern and central areas, the study of Stone Age archaeology was largely inspired by pioneer researchers in South Africa. South Africa was the first, and only major, part of the sub-continent where European colonizers and settlers came into contact with indigenous people who regularly used stone tools. By the end of the century a great deal of artifactual material, most of it poorly documented, had been amassed in museum and private collections. This chapter provides the archaeological evidence for the inception and progress of the Later Stone Age cultures in each region of sub-Saharan Africa up to the time of the first appearance of techniques of food production. West Africa is separated from the rest of sub-Saharan Africa on the one side by the densely forested Congo basin and on the other by the vast northern area, stretching between Cameroun and the southern part of the Sudan Republic.