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The new discoveries at sites in Senegal on the West coast of Africa, by Max Planck Institute researchers, are fuelling a rethink of the passage of human evolution.
New research, published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests humans in what is now Senegal continued to use Middle Stone Age flake-making technologies as late as 11 thousand years ago.
Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 thousand years ago, where their fossils are found with the earliest cultural and technological expressions of our species. This repertoire, commonly referred to as the Middle Stone Age , remained widely in use across much of Africa until around 60-30 thousand years ago. New research in Senegal shows this first human culture persisted until 11 thousand years ago - 20 thousand years longer than previously thought.
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Editor s note: This Point of the Spear is reprinted from An Uneasy Equilibrium by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Chapter IV: The question of the nation.
An Uneasy Equilibrium is the Political Report to the Sixth Congress of the African People s Socialist Party, published by Burning Spear Publications in 2014 and available at burningspearmarketplace.com
Our discussion of the African nation and its definition, resting on a real, material basis, must serve African development. The research and writings of Cheikh Anta Diop demonstrate quite scientifically the cultural unity of Africa going back through millennia.