Mousteroid was a culture occurring during the period 80,000 - 50,000 BPofCentral, Southern and East Africa. Examples of this culture are the tool-industry of the Middle PaleolithicinWest Africa,[1][2] known from sites at Zenebi, Nigeria[3] and Tiemassas in Senegal.[4][5]
The most important of the Western Senegal sites is Pte. de Fann in Dakar.[6] Classified Mousteroid, indicating similarities to industry Mousterian in form but neither akin to, nor at a temporal parallel. Other sites about Dakar and Rufisque, were part of a culture that had not occurred for sufficient duration for tools to be found at differing depths in the ground (without stratification).[7]
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