Stone Age Africa

concentration of megalithic stone circles in Senegal and the Gambia

Artifact

archaeological site in Zambia

archaeological period

prehistoric and paleontologic past of Africa

neolithic culture in Ghana (West Africa)

earliest period of Central Saharan rock art

era of North African regional history

Archaeological site in Kenya

Takarkori is an archaeological site and rock shelter located in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains of southwestern Libya. During the Holocene, humans occupied the site between 10,170 cal BP and 4650 cal BP. Takarkori rockshelter is one of two sites where the earliest evidence of plant processing in pottery has been found, is the first Saharan site where ancient DNA was able to be extracted, particularly from two interred individuals, and is also a site with artifacts which include bone tools, stone tools, wooden tools, pottery, fiber goods, and carved figurines.

The Magosian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry found in southern and eastern Africa. It dates to between 10,000 and 6,000 years BC and is distinguished from its predecessors by the use of microliths and small blades.

Mertoutek is a village in the commune of Idlès, in Tazrouk District, Tamanrasset Province, Algeria. It lies in the northern Hoggar Mountains on the eastern side of a wadi, northwest of the town of Idlès and north of Tamanrasset.

Archaeological site in northern Sudan