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The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)

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  • Huysecom, E. Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland (Email: eric.huysecom@unige.ch; sylvain.ozainne@unige.ch)
  • Rasse, M. Lab. Ledra, CNRS-UMR IDEES 6228, University of Rouen, Mont St-Aignan, F-76821, France, and lab. AnTET - Arscan UMR 7041 CNRS, University of Paris-X Nanterre, F-92023, France (Email: michel.rasse@univ-rouen.fr)
  • Lespez, L. Lab. Geophen-LETG-UMR 6554 CNRS, University of Caen-Basse Normandie, Caen, F-14000, France (Email: laurent.lespez@unicaen.fr)
  • Neumann, K. Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University, D-60323 Frankfurt, Germany (Email: k.neumann@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Fahmy, A. Department of Botany, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt (Email: afahmy658@gmail.com)
  • Ballouche, A. Lab. Environmental Studies on Anthropogenic Systems (LEESA/UA), University of Angers, Angers, F-49000, France (Email: aziz.ballouche@univ-angers.fr)
  • Ozainne, S. Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, CH-1211, Switzerland (Email: eric.huysecom@unige.ch; sylvain.ozainne@unige.ch)
  • Maggetti, M. Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland (Email: marino.maggetti@unifr.ch)
  • Tribolo, Ch CRP2A, UMR 5060, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, F-33607, France (Email: ctribolo@u-bordeaux3.fr)
  • Soriano, S. Lab. AnTET - Arscan UMR 7041 CNRS, University of Paris-X Nanterre, F-92023, France (Email: sylvain.soriano@mae.u-paris10.fr)
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    2009
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  • Antiquity. - Cambridge University Press. - 2009, vol. 83, no. 322, p. 905-917
English New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In Africa, however, the seeds were probably boiled (then as now) rather than made into bread
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