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ArticleThe African archaeological review2022

Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal.

Viola C Schmid, Katja Douze, Chantal Tribolo, Maria Lorenzo Martinez, Michel Rasse, Laurent Lespez, Brice Lebrun, David Hérisson, Matar Ndiaye, Eric Huysecom

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Viola C SchmidLaboratory of Archaeology and Population in Africa (APA), Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, 1205 Genève, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8630-4782
Katja DouzeLaboratory of Archaeology and Population in Africa (APA), Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, 1205 Genève, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9997-1605
Chantal TriboloResearch Institute on Archaeological Materials-Center of Research on Physics Applied to Archaeology (IRAMAT-CRP2A), CNRS-UMR 5060, University Bordeaux-Montaigne, Esplanade des Antilles, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0506-2430
Maria Lorenzo MartinezInrap ARA, rue Louis Maggiorini 12, 69500 Bron, France.
Michel RasseLaboratory Archéorient, CNRS-UMR 5133, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, University Lumière Lyon 2, 7 Rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, France.
Laurent LespezLaboratory of Physical Geography (LGP), CNRS-UMR 8591, Department of Geography, University Paris-Est Creteil, 1 place Aristide Briand, 92195 Meudon, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3256-1999
Brice LebrunResearch Institute on Archaeological Materials-Center of Research on Physics Applied to Archaeology (IRAMAT-CRP2A), CNRS-UMR 5060, University Bordeaux-Montaigne, Esplanade des Antilles, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7503-8685
David HérissonAnthropologie des Techniques, des Espaces et des Territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène (ArScAn-AnTET), CNRS-UMR 7041, MSH Mondes, Paris Nanterre University, 21 Allée de l'Université, 93023 Nanterre Cedex, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7240-0455
Matar NdiayeLaboratory of Prehistory and Protohistory, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, University of Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, 33 Route de la Corniche Ouest, Dakar, Senegal.ORCID 0000-0002-8068-8938
Eric HuysecomLaboratory of Archaeology and Population in Africa (APA), Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, 1205 Genève, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-4205-0914

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Over the past decade, the increasing wealth of new archaeological data on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Senegal and Mali has broadened our understanding of West Africa's contributions to cultural developments. Within the West African sequence, the phase of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3, ca. 59-24 ka) yielded so far the best known and extensive archaeological information. The site of Toumboura III encompasses an occupation dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to between 40 ± 3 ka and 30 ± 3 ka. It provides the largest, well-dated, and stratified lithic assemblage in West Africa for the MSA and sheds light on an unprecedented cultural expression for this period, adding to the notable diversity of the late MSA in this region. We conducted a technological analysis of the lithic components following the Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10437-021-09463-5.

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