'''Mousteroid''' was a culture occurring during the period 80,000 - 50,000 BP of Central, Southern and East Africa. Examples of this culture are the tool-industry of the Middle Paleolithic in West Africa,<ref>O. Davies (1964)</ref><ref>J. D. Clark (1967)</ref> known from sites at Zenebi, Nigeria<ref>G. W. Barendson et al (1965)</ref> and Tiemassas in Senegal.<ref>R. Guillot and C. Descamps (1969)</ref><ref>C. T. SHAW THE PRE-HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA in Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa ''General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory'' 819 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=adjqADObNvMC&dq=Mousteroid&pg=PA621 University of California Press, 1981 ] {{ISBN|0-435-94808-3}} [Retrieved 2012-01-09]</ref>
==Dakar and Rufisque== The most important of the Western Senegal sites is Pte. de Fann in Dakar.<ref>Corbeil 1943</ref> Classified Mousteroid, indicating similarities to industry Mousterian in form but neither akin to, nor at a temporal parallel. Other sites about Dakar and Rufisque, were part of a culture that had not occurred for sufficient duration for tools to be found at differing depths in the ground (''without stratification'').<ref>Oliver Davies ''West Africa before the Europeans: archaeology & prehistory'' - 364 pages ''Methuen's handbooks of archaeology'' references (Corbeil ''NA'' 17 (1943) [https://books.google.com/books?id=9TmlQLbpy9cC&dq=Corbeil+R+western+senegal&pg=PA36 Corbeil R., Mauny R., Charbonnier J., 1948 ], Richard 1955)[https://books.google.com/books?id=4aQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Mousteroid+of+Africa&pg=PA141 Taylor & Francis, 1967 ] [Retrieved 2012-01-09]</ref>
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