Accession No
1937.501 A
Description
Core; Flake; Tool; Scraper; Point - Late Levallois-Stillbay transition: cores, flakes, and rare retouched tools, scrapers and points in quartzite and white quartz
Place
Africa; East Africa; Uganda; Victoria; Lake Victoria; Jinja; Bugungu
Period
Middle Palaeolithic Levallois Stillbay ?Neolithic Late
Source
O' Brien.T.P
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1937.501 A; MAA: 1937.501; 1937.501/Record 2
Cultural Affliation
Material
Quartzite; Stone; Quartz
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Same industry as 1937.501/Record 1, but found a few yards away in a rubble that has weathered from the solid laterite (B.P.R). The oldest, most deeply stained tools are Levallois, those less stained are transitional. The most recent, unstained group (no.4) are probably Neolithic; Found: Found adhering to or loose on the surface of laterite above the Mumbwan industry, on Bugungu Plateau, near Jinja, Lake Victoria; Collected by: O' Brien.T.P
Event Date 3/10/1992
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Late Levallois-Stillbay transition: cores, flakes, and rare retouched tools, scrapers and points in quartzite and white quartz
Event Date 3/10/1992
Author: maa
FM:65340
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