facts you did not know about africa

        The human race is of African origin. The oldest know skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans or homo sapiens were excavated at sites in east Africa. Human remains were discovered at omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world.

2       Africans  were   the  first   to organize fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago.at katanda, a region in northern zaire(now congo) was recovered a finely wrought series polished and barbed. Also uncovered, was a tool, equally well crafted ,believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture.

3       Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. 1964, a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at bomvu ridge in the ugwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artifacts were stone-made mining tools. Adrian boshier, one of the archaelogists on the site dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old.

4       West Africans built in stone by 1100bc. In the tichitt-walata region of Mauritania, archaeologists have found ‘’large stone mansory villages’’ that date back to 1100 bc. The villages consisted of roughly circular compounds connected but ‘’well- defined streets’’.