In:
Quaternaire, PERSEE Program, Vol. 15, No. 4 ( 2004), p. 329-341
Abstract:
At Ounjougou (Dogon country, Mali), thanks at a local hydrographie change, a complex stratigraphie sequence is subjected to a rapid incision of the Yame and its affluents While Holocene deposits are significantly present, most of the material that fills the relief developed in sandstone consists of Upper Pleistocene formations The stratigraphy, full of discontinuities, the great diversity of hthic industries, as well as the preliminary OSL datings allow us to reconstitute the major stages of the geomorphological evolution and to propose a primary chrono-cultural framework of Middle Stone Age occupations The Ounjougou sequence is especially characterised by the alternation of original hthic industries, which have no contemporary West African equivalents, and industries with more common characteristics which echo more greatly developed technical and cultural phenomena We can thus propose that the sequence observed at Ounjougou does not concur with the hypothesis of a unique initial population which then evolved on site, but conforms more realistically with the successive populations hypothesis
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1142-2904
DOI:
10.3406/quate.2004.1779
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
2004
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2458675-4
SSG:
13
SSG:
6,11
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