By J. D. Fage
ISBN-10: 0521215927
ISBN-13: 9780521215923
After the prehistory of quantity I, quantity II of The Cambridge background of Africa offers with the beginnings of historical past. it really is approximately 500 BC that historic resources start to include all Africa north of the Sahara and, by way of the tip of the interval, documentation can be commencing to seem for elements of sub-Saharan Africa. North of the Sahara, this case arises on account that Africans have been sharing within the significant civilizations of the Mediterranean international. it's proven that those northern Africans weren't easily passive recipients of Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Arab affects, or of the nice religions and cultures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam coming from the Semitic global. They tailored this stuff to their very own specific wishes and reasons, and infrequently too contributed to their common improvement. however the North African civilization did not make headway south of the Sahara.
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E. no. ) 23 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE LEGACY OF PREHISTORY clusively that two distinct hominids - A. boisei and H. y. ago. Thus this opens the possibility that several sympatric hominid lineages occupied the African savanna during the Pliocene and earliest Pleisto 1 cene. For this writer, therefore, the evidence is perhaps best expressed by the hypothesis of two Australopithecine species - a gracile and a robust, the latter divided into the regionally distinct sub-specific forms A.
Large animal butchery sites become more frequent and, as with the Oldowan, the tool-kit associated is usually, though not always, one of small tools. There is some indication that small herds of often quite large animals were now successfully hunted and killed. In the upper part of Bed II at the Olduvai Gorge, at site B K II, are the remains of 33 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE LEGACY OF PREHISTORY twenty-four extinct bovids (Pelorovis) which would appear to have been driven into a stream and butchered; at another Olduvai site (SHK) are the remains of a small herd of springbok.
Similarly, those with many choppers and heavy- and light-duty scrapers can readily be classified as Deve loped Oldowan. But there are also assemblages with mixed Acheulian and Developed Oldowan components, and these present a problem. 1 A similar situation in regard to the manner of occurrence and con temporaneity of Acheulian and Oldowan tool traditions appears to pertain also fairly generally in Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene, except that there are here very few multiple context sites.
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