Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. African (general, continental cultures)
6. prehistoric African
7. prehistoric Sub-Saharan African periods
8. Sub-Saharan African First Intermediate Stone Age periods

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to a sub-Saharan tool-making culture dating from the upper Pleistocene and nearly contemporaneous with the Fauresmith industry of southern Africa. It is named after the site at Sango Bay, Uganda, and has also been found in Angola, Zaire, Kenya, Zambia, and elsewhere. It is characterized by hand axes, flake knives, scrapers, large planes for woodworking, and a peculiar pick. Sangoan culture was apparently developed by a forest-dwelling people, while the Fauresmith was developed by a plains-dwelling people.