Huysecom, E. Rasse, M. Lespez, L. Neumann, K. Fahmy, A. Ballouche, A. Ozainne, S. Maggetti, Marino Tribolo, Ch. Soriano, S. 2009 New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In Africa, however, the seeds were probably boiled (then as now) rather than made into bread. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/301637 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/301637/files/S0003598X00099245.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1017/S0003598X00099245 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Antiquity. - 2009, vol. 83, no. 322, p. 905-917 Africa Sahara Sub-Saharan Sahel Early Holocene bifacial arrowheads ceramics info:eu-repo/classification/udc/902 The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali) http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501