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The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)
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New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In Africa, however, the seeds were probably boiled (then as now) rather than made into bread.
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Pottery was used in present-day southern Mali (Dogon Country) by 9000 BCE.
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- Authors
- Huysecom, E., Rasse, M., Lespez, L., Neumann, K., Fahmy, A., Ballouche, A., Ozainne, S., Maggetti, M., Tribolo, C., & Soriano, S.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-12-01
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 322
- Pages
- 905-917
- ISSN
- 0003-598X
- 1745-1744
- Cited by
- 110
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- Language
- en
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