Sangoan

The Sangoan archaeological industry is the name given by archaeologists to a Palaeolithic tool
manufacturing style[1] which may have developed from the earlier Acheulian types. In addition to
the Acheulian stone tools, bone and antler picks were also used. Sangoan toolkit was used
especially for grubbing.

The Sangoan period is broadly analogous to the Mousterian culture in Europe and is dated to
about 130,000 to 10,000 years ago.

It is named after the site of Sango Bay in Uganda where it was first discerned in 1920. The
peoples who used Sangoan tools were hunting and gathering cultures, also known as the
Sangoan, who occupied southern Africa in areas where annual rainfall is less than 40 inches
(1016 mm) from the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period. The Sangoan industry was
distributed broadly from present day Botswana to Ethiopia.[2] In the Kalahari Desert, many
prehistoric stone tools have been recovered by archaeologists dating at least as early as the
period of the Sangoan culture.[3] It also went as far west as the forested regions of the Congo.[4]

Notes

1. Robert Linville Hoover. 1974

2. D.W. Phillipson. 2005

3. C. Michael Hogan. 2008

4. Langer, William L., ed. (1972). An Encyclopedia of World History (https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia

worl00will/page/9) (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 9 (https://archive.org/details/
encyclopediaworl00will/page/9) . ISBN 0-395-13592-3.
References
C. Michael Hogan. 2008. "Makgadikgadi" (http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22373
&mode=&order=0) at Burnham, A. (editor) The Megalithic Portal

Robert Linville Hoover. 1974. A review of the Sangoan industrial complex in Africa, 76 pages

D.W. Phillipson. 2005. African archaeology, page 81 of 389 pages

J. Janmart. 1953. The Kalahari Sands of the Lunda (N.-E. Angola), their earlier redistributions
and the Sangoan culture, 64 p.

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