Lopé-Okanda
Mixed UNESCO site along Gabon's Ogooué River valley preserving habitation remains, iron-working evidence, and around 1,800 petroglyphs from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age, marking a major Bantu migration route from West Africa into central, east and southern Africa.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1,500 BCE mainstream
earliest Neolithic occupation evidence in the Ogooué valley (approximate) source - 500 CE mainstream
Iron Age settlement and ironworking flourish along the Bantu migration route (approximate) source - 2007 CE mainstream
inscribed as a mixed cultural/natural UNESCO World Heritage Site source
Where
0.1833° S, 11.6167° E
Sources
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