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The Sangoan is the name given by archaeologists to a Palaeolithic tool manufacturing style which may have developed from the earlier Acheulian types. In addition to the Acheulian stone tools, bone and antler picks were also used. Sangoan toolkits were used especially for grubbing.
El Sangoense o sangoenense es el nombre que le han dado los arqueólogos a una cultura prehistórica del África central y occidental y que parece ser heredera de la tradición achelense africana durante la Edad intermedia de la piedra. 1 Para algunos especialistas podría paralelizarse con el inicio del Musteriense europeo, aunque con ...
Sangoan industry, sub-Saharan African stone tool industry of Acheulean derivation dating from about 130,000 to 10,000 years ago. It is more or less contemporaneous with the Fauresmith industry of southern Africa.
Given the evidence of systematic blade production and the presence of a lanceolate in addition to small and regular core-axes, the upper assemblage of this sequence is qualified as Lupemban. The Sangoan levels are interstratified with late Acheulean clusters.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Human habitation of the Congo basin came relatively late in the Sangoan era (100,000 to 40,000 bce; see Sangoan industry), perhaps because of the dense forest. The people who used the large-core bifacial Sangoan tools probably subsisted by gathering food and digging up roots; they were not hunters.
In several regions of Zaire and neighboring countries, the Sangoan appears to mark the first human settlement of the low-lying country now occupied by the equatorial forest. The name, derived from Sango Bay on Lake Victoria, Uganda, loosely applied to a rather heterogeneous group of industries in eastern and south-central Africa, and perhaps in ...
Sangoan are those of the heavy duty component of the Acheulian as defined by Kleindienst (1962), which includes picks, choppers, and core scrapers, with the addition of the core axe as defined by Clark (1965).
