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Matupi Cave

Cave in the Mount Hoyo massif in the Ituri rainforest, north-east DR Congo. Its deep quartz microlithic deposits are among the earliest evidence anywhere for microlithic tool making.

Dated events and their evidence

• 38,700 BCE mainstream
  Base of the Later Stone Age quartz microlithic sequence, minimum age over 40,700 BP source
• 23,000 BCE mainstream
  Knapping of quartz crystals for bladelets, present before 25 ka BP source

Where

1.1933° N, 30.0085° E

Sources

• https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:10.1080/01977261.2023.2188342?fields=title,abstract,year,venue

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