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IMMEDIATELY before the War, industries belonging to a so-called Tumbian culture were being recognized at many sites in eastern and western Africa. First noticed by Dr. X. Stainer in the Congo, industries of similar types were soon being identified in many other areas. Dr. Menghin and T. P. O'Brien (in his book on the prehistory of Uganda) went so far as to suggest that the Tumbian culture was derived directly from that of the coups de poing makers, that it could be described as a sort of Acheulean gone to seed. Prof. H. Breuil, however, in a recent study of Dr. Cabu's finds, denies the existence of the Tumbian as a distinct culture, and he and Prof, van Riet Lowe suggest that the industries represent only a variation of the Sangoan culture of Uganda with strong Fauresmith affinities (Trans. Roy. Soc. of South Africa, 30, pt. ii; 1944).
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BURKITT, M. The Stone Age in East Africa. Nature 156, 371–372 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156371b0
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