Mousteroid

Mousteroid was a culture occurring during the period 80,000 - 50,000 BP of Central, Southern and East Africa. Examples of this culture are the tool-industry of the Middle Paleolithic in West Africa,^[1][2] known from sites at Zenebi, Nigeria^[3] and Tiemassas in Senegal.^[4][5]

Dakar and Rufisque

The most important of the Western Senegal sites is Pte. de Fann in Dakar.^[6] Classified Mousteroid, indicating similarities to industry Mousterian in form but neither akin to, nor at a temporal parallel. Other sites about Dakar and Rufisque, 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).^[7]

References

1. O. Davies (1964)
2. J. D. Clark (1967)
3. G. W. Barendson et al (1965)
4. R. Guillot and C. Descamps (1969)
5. C. T. SHAW THE PRE-HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA in Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory 819 pages University of California Press, 1981 ISBN 0-435-94808-3 [Retrieved 2012-01-09]
6. Corbeil 1943
7. 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 , Richard 1955)Taylor & Francis, 1967 [Retrieved 2012-01-09]