List of African Invention & Innovation.
• Stone tools created in eastern Africa at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin 3,3 million years ago.
• Tool industry 2,3 million years ago called the Oldowan tool industry.
• Acheulean tool industry 1,5 million years ago in Africa spreads to Middle East & Europe 800 000 to 600 000 years ago.
• Homo Erectus uses fire 1,5 million years ago.
• Bone tools & backed blades by Homo Sapien 90 000 to 60 000 years ago in southern & east Africa.
• Oldest rock art at Blombos Cave, South Africa 77 000 years ago (early chemistry).
• Lebombo Bone from Swaziland is the oldest known mathematical artefact which shows 29 distinct notches depicting a month cut into bone around 35 000 BC.
• Iron, bronze & brass used in west Africa by 1200 BC.
• Swahili traders were major suppliers of gold to Asia in the Red Sea & Indian Ocean trade routes (recorded by north African explorer Abu Muhammad ibn Battuta).
• Steel forging by Haya in Tanzania by 1 BC.
• European travelers in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Uganda & Rwanda) during the 19th century reported cases of surgery in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. One observer noted a "surgical skill which had reached a high standard".
• Ethiopians were first to discover coffee's edible properties. Ethiopians, particularly the Oromo people, were the first to have discovered & recognised the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant.
• Ox-drawn plows have been used in Ethiopia for two millenia & possibly longer i. e. before Christ.
• Engaruka is an Iron Age archaeological site in northern Tanzania known for the ruins of a complex irrigation system. Stone channels were used to dike, dam & level surrounding river waters. Some of these channels were several kilometres long, channelling & feeding individual plots of land totalling approximately 20 kilometres squared. Seven stone-terraced villages along the mountainside also comprise the settlement.
• Barkcloth was used by Baganda in Uganda from the Mutuba tree. Kanga are Swahili pieces of fabric that come in rectangular shapes, made of pure cotton & put together to make clothing. In Malawi & Zambia, kitenge (similar to kangas but have thicker cloth) are called Chitenge.
• Leopard skins were coveted & were a symbol of kingship in Zulu society. Skins were tanned to form leather, dyed & embedded with beads.
• Donkey domesticated in Nile Valley or Horn of Africa.
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• Tool industry 2,3 million years ago called the Oldowan tool industry.
• Acheulean tool industry 1,5 million years ago in Africa spreads to Middle East & Europe 800 000 to 600 000 years ago.
• Homo Erectus uses fire 1,5 million years ago.
• Bone tools & backed blades by Homo Sapien 90 000 to 60 000 years ago in southern & east Africa.
• Oldest rock art at Blombos Cave, South Africa 77 000 years ago (early chemistry).
• Lebombo Bone from Swaziland is the oldest known mathematical artefact which shows 29 distinct notches depicting a month cut into bone around 35 000 BC.
• Iron, bronze & brass used in west Africa by 1200 BC.
• Swahili traders were major suppliers of gold to Asia in the Red Sea & Indian Ocean trade routes (recorded by north African explorer Abu Muhammad ibn Battuta).
• Steel forging by Haya in Tanzania by 1 BC.
• European travelers in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Uganda & Rwanda) during the 19th century reported cases of surgery in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. One observer noted a "surgical skill which had reached a high standard".
• Ethiopians were first to discover coffee's edible properties. Ethiopians, particularly the Oromo people, were the first to have discovered & recognised the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant.
• Ox-drawn plows have been used in Ethiopia for two millenia & possibly longer i. e. before Christ.
• Engaruka is an Iron Age archaeological site in northern Tanzania known for the ruins of a complex irrigation system. Stone channels were used to dike, dam & level surrounding river waters. Some of these channels were several kilometres long, channelling & feeding individual plots of land totalling approximately 20 kilometres squared. Seven stone-terraced villages along the mountainside also comprise the settlement.
• Barkcloth was used by Baganda in Uganda from the Mutuba tree. Kanga are Swahili pieces of fabric that come in rectangular shapes, made of pure cotton & put together to make clothing. In Malawi & Zambia, kitenge (similar to kangas but have thicker cloth) are called Chitenge.
• Leopard skins were coveted & were a symbol of kingship in Zulu society. Skins were tanned to form leather, dyed & embedded with beads.
• Donkey domesticated in Nile Valley or Horn of Africa.
If you liked this list, maybe you'll like this YouTube video called Top 10 African contributions to World Civilisation.
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