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🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Rock art
Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)
10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).
🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Archaeological wonder
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,…