Kapsa Neolithic Culture

…In the Eastern Rift Valley of East Africa, there is a culture characterized by knife-shaped stone tools, carving tools, scrapers, scrapers, and microliths, known as the Kenyan Kapsa culture, but apart from the morphological similarity of the stone tools, its relationship to the Kapsa culture of North Africa is unclear. In the Maghreb, the Kapsa culture was succeeded by the Kapsa Neolithic culture, which added ground stone tools, stone arrowheads, straight-cutting arrowheads, and pottery to the traditional stone tools of the Kapsa culture, and began farming and animal husbandry. [Osan Yoshikazu] …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Kapsa Neolithic Culture" is listed below.

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…東アフリカの東部地溝帯には，ナイフ形石器，彫器，搔器･削器，細石器を特色とする文化があり，ケニア･カプサ文化の名で知られているが，石器の形態的類似のほかには，北アフリカのカプサ文化との関係は明らかではない。なお，マグレブではカプサ文化のあとを受けて，その伝統を引く石器に，磨製石器，石鏃，直剪鏃や土器を加え，農耕･牧畜を始めたカプサ新石器文化がつづく。【大参 義一】。…

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