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Places in Congo (DRC) · Mysteria

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Places in Congo (DRC)

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🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Rock art

Matupi Cave (Ituri) – 40-ka Rainforest Foragers

Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)

10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).

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🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Archaeological wonder

Ishango (Lake Edward) – Harpoon & Ishango Bone

Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers

Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…