A Brief Overview of Major Pleistocene Palaeoart Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa

A literature survey shows that Africa south of the Sahara has as yet produced only a dozen palaeoart sites of Pleistocene age, of which the following seven have yielded multiple finds: Chifubwa Stream Shelter in northern Zambia. Excavations there in 1951 revealed a sequence comprising surface soil with a few Iron Age sherds, 2 m of sterile sand, and then up to 0.7 m of red earth on bedrock with a Later Stone Age assemblage belonging to the Nachikufan 1 industry. The shelter wall, from well ab

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