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Article: Gone fishing in Stone-Age Africa. (inhabitants of Africa's Kalahari Desert caught freshwater fish as recently as 4,000 years ago) (Brief Article)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- July 30, 1994
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Excavations at a site in southern Africa's Kalahari Desert suggest that the area's inhabitants caught and consumed freshwater fish from what was once a nearby lake for much of the past 25,000 years. Fishing expeditions to nearby rivers during spawning runs probably began more than 40,000 years ago, contend Lawrence H. Robbins of Michigan State University in East Lansing and his colleagues.
Until now, evidence of fishing at that time emerged only at African sites located at least 1,400 miles north of the Kalahari, many near the Nile River or East African lakes.
Discoveries in the Kalahari and elsewhere "increasingly document the importance of fish as a ...