Uses and Limitations of the "Sangoan" for Understanding Hominin Mobility and Dispersals: An Example from Northeastern Zambia
Author(s): Michael Bisson
Year: 2018
Summary
The Sangoan, a late Middle Pleistocene technological tradition widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, follows the Acheulean and is considered by some to represent the earliest manifestation of the Middle Stone Age. It may coincide with the evolution of Homo sapiens and the initial appearance of evidence for complex cognition. Unfortunately, this archaeological construct has fallen in and out of favor and remains poorly defined. It has uncertain dates and environmental associations, and ambiguous hominin fossil associations. Using a new Zambian site as an example, the utility of the Sangoan construct to assess hominin mobility and dispersals is discussed.
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Uses and Limitations of the "Sangoan" for Understanding Hominin Mobility and Dispersals: An Example from Northeastern Zambia. Michael Bisson. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444481)
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Keywords
General
Lithic Analysis
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Mobility
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Paleolithic
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Sangoan
Geographic Keywords
Africa: Congo/Central Africa
Spatial Coverage
min long: 8.613; min lat: -16.805 ; max long: 37.617; max lat: 22.431 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 18844