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 Middle Stone Age periods

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to a Late Paleolithic stone tool culture that flourished from Ethiopia southward to the eastern coast of South Africa from about 50,000 to 30,000 Before Present. It is often compared to the Mousterian industry of North Africa and Europe, and is characterized by leaf-shaped bifacial points and lance heads or skinning knives made by the Levallois stone-flaking technique of shaping a prepared core in order to produce pointed flakes.