GS12



GS12

Room 3.44

African Prehistory / Préhistoire africaine

Session organizers: Abdoulaye Camara, Maria Carmela Gatto

GS12​, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 11:50, Room 3.44

9:00-9:20 - Introduction to the Session / Abdoulaye Camara

9:20-9:40 - Technological framework of Middle Stone Age occupations in the Free State, South Africa / Benoit Longet, Maïlys Richard, Beatrice Bin, Will Archer, Michael B. Toffolo

9:40-10:00 - Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Gebel Ramlah – Archaeological evidence and geological settings / Jakub Mugaj, Christopher C. Hill, Jacek Kabaciński

10:00-10:20 - Burial practices in the region of the First Nile Cataract during the 5th and 4th millennia BCE / Maria Carmela Gatto

10:20-10:40 - Nomads along the Nile in the 2nd millennium BCE: Archaeological evidence from the First Nile Cataract / Maria Carmela Gatto

10:40-11:00 - Reassessing the Chronology of Prehistoric Rock Art in Western Sahara / Joaquim Soler

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - First Polish Ethnoarchaeological Survey In Togo (2026): Fieldwork Results And Research Perspectives/ Krzysztof Rak, Lucjan Buchalik
 

Posters:
1. A chronostratigraphic perspective of the Later Stone Age site of Seal Rock Shelter, Erongo, Namibia / Julia Shilume, Zixuan Shen, Fanny Olivier, Isis Mesfin, David Pleurdeau
2. Firing techniques in Northeast Africa during the 5th millennium BCE / Sakura Sanada