Panga ya Saidi
Cave in the coastal forest of Kilifi County, Kenya, about 15 km from the Indian Ocean. It holds a continuous 78,000-year record across the Middle and Later Stone Age.
Dated events and their evidence
- 76,300 BCE mainstream
Burial of a young child in a dug pit, the oldest known human burial in Africa source - 65,000 BCE mainstream
Ochre, worked bone and shell beads show early symbolic behaviour on the East African coast source
Where
3.6786° S, 39.7358° E
Sources
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