Isimila

Isimila is a prehistoric Stone Age site in the Iringa Region of Tanzania. Excavations at the middle pleistocene site yielded large cutting tools, numerous scrapers and relatively few heavy-duty tools. Owing to the type of lithic artefacts found, it has been interpreted as representing a late Acheulean site which had been occupied for a very short time. Based on typologic similarity between finds from Isimila and those from Kalambo falls, the site was tentatively dated at around 60,000 B.P.

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Artefacts unearthed in Isimila are considered to be amongst the most significant Stone Age finds ever identified.

Sources
1. Hansen, C.L. and Keller, C.M. (1971), Environment and Activity Patterning at Isimila Korongo, Iringa. American Anthropologist[Link]
2. Miller, J. M., Werner, J. J., Biittner, K. M. and Willoughby, P. R. (2020). Fourteen Years of Archaeological and Heritage Research in the Iringa Region, Tanzania. African Archaeology Review [Link]