Upper Nubia and beyond at the Terminal Pleistocene –
growing evidence of the late occurrence of MSA.
Piotr Osypiński & Marta Osypińska
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Discovery of new MSA sites complex in the Middle Nile Valley (Affad Basin, Sudan) accompanied with animal remains made a great opportunity to broad our knowledge about settling of this slightly unknown region commonly recognized as intra- and out-of-Africa migration corridor. Absolute dating of sediments directly related to the human existence (16th millennium BP) unexpectedly opened the possibility to discuss it on a much wider attitude however.
Presenting the Affad evidence we wish to increase the discussion on the reasons of extremely long persistence of technology and behavior defined as typical for MSA by the Nile. Additionally, assuming much higher significance of the convergence in so called Levallois methods transmission we would like also to look once again at the topic of our understanding of MSA as a stage of human early development, adaptation and far distance migrations tracking.
Research financed by Polish National Science Center grant: 2015/18/E/HS3/00416.
Website of the project: http://archeosudan.org/en/
