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ID: 7033069
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7033069
Record Type:
administrative
Ishango (archaeological site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 07 37 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.1260
decimal degrees
Long: 029 36 01 E
degrees minutes
Long: 29.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Archaeological site located in the Western Rift Valley best known for discoveries of possibly the earliest bone harpoons or barbed bone points.
Names:
Ishango
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preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Africa
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Nord-Kivu
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Ishango
(archaeological site) (
P
)
Place Types:
archaeological site (
preferred
,
C
)
deserted settlement (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ishango..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Brooks and Smith Ishango Revisited, African Archaeological Review, (1987)
.................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
309
.................
Yellen, Barbed Bone Points, African Archaeological Review (1985)
Subject:
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VP
]
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
309
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