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THE prehistoric archæology of the Congo is very little known. The researches of Dr. Cabu were in part published at the International Congress held in Brussels in 1935; but most of his discoveries are still unknown to the average prehistorian. Yet the Congo is probably a key area, linking as it does the north with the south of the African continent. The only bit of information on the subject which had become current among prehistorians concerned an alleged new culture, the Tumbrian; but now even this latter seems actually to be non-existent, and the industry in question merely a mélange of early, middle and later stone age material, somewhat corresponding to the Sangoan of Uganda.
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BURKITT, M. Prehistory in the Congo*. Nature 155, 585 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155585a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155585a0