Talk:Prehistoric North Africa/Archive 1

Writing system
Distinguished primarily by cultural and linguistic attributes, the Berbers lacked a written language and hence tended to be overlooked or marginalized in historical accounts.

What about Tifinagh? -- Error 02:01, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Move request

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:28, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I propose to rename this article to Prehistoric North Africa (currently redirecting to History of North Africa). The article in fact is a stub that concerns the history of thye whole Saharan region. All the archaeological cultures mentioned in the text extend far beyond Algeria. If the article is renamed, I am going to extend it by adding some text and references to literature and sites. --Dmitri Lytov (talk) 20:19, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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Mouserian/Aterian dates
The article states:

''Later, Neandertal tool makers produced hand axes in the Levalloisian and Mousterian styles (c. 43,000 BCE) similar to those in the Levant. According to some sources,[who?] North Africa was the site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic flake-tool techniques. Tools of this era, starting about 30,000 BCE, are called Aterian (after the site Bir el Ater, south of Annaba) and are marked by a high standard of workmanship, great variety, and specialization.''

I thought Aterian was much older than that. Aterian stone tools have been discovered recently and dated +175.000 BP, and in any case it has been in the region since 90.000 BP. http://friendfeed.com/sarnet001/10db26a8/aterian-artifacts-at-175-000-bp-ifri-nammar

About Mousterian, I thought also it disappeared about 70-80.000 years BP, althought there's no consensus on this. If the article states there are mousterian hand axes dated only 43.000 BP, it'd nice to read the source, because it's way recent than the current accepted dates, at least for western Africa. With "Neandertal tool makers" do you mean neanderthals were living in North Africa only by 43.000 BP? That's pretty recent.

I hope you'll give some more information on this interesting article, and if dates are wrong they must be corrected.

Cheers,

Maria Lluïsa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.6.190.117 (talk) 01:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Why is there no info on the first arrival of homo sapiens in north africa?
I posted a reliable source for this and made some changes and now its gone. Is it completely pointless to try to contribute to wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prophetofreason (talk • contribs) 01:02, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Never mind I see it now. I feel kind of stupid.Prophetofreason (talk) 01:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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