Eburran industry

The Eburran industry is the name of an East African tool assemblage that dates from 13,000 BCE and thereafter, found around Lake Nakuru in the Ol Doinyo Eburru volcano complex in the Rift Valley, Kenya.

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 (c. 300–50 ka)
  • Mousterian (160–40 ka)
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Upper Paleolithic
 (c. 50–12 ka)

Fertile Crescent:

  • Emiran (50–40 ka)
  • Ahmarian (46–42 ka)
  • Baradostian (36–18 ka)
  • Aurignacian (35–29 ka)
  • Zarzian (20–10 ka)
  • Kebaran (18–12.5 ka)
  • Trialetian (16–8 ka)
  • Natufian (14.5–11.5 ka)
  • Khiamian (12.2–10.8 ka)

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Siberia:
↓ Mesolithic

The culture was at one time known as the "Kenyan Capsian" because findings resemble those of the North African Capsian trans-Saharan culture.

Eburran assemblages, as recovered from Gamble's Cave and Nderit Drift, comprise large backed blades, crescent microliths, burins, and endscrapers. Some tools at Gamble's Cave were made from obsidian.

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