Recent archaeological research has substantially changed the known distribution of one of the hallmark artifacts recognized by prehistorians working in Africa. Barbed bone points similar to those found along the Nile, in the Sahara, and in East Africa have been discovered at the White Paintings Rock Shelter in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. In addition, the earliest evidence for the use of freshwater fish in southern Africa, and one of the most continuous records of their exploitation known has been uncovered in the Kalahari. New evidence of a late Pleistocene lake is also reported.
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