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Stone Age and the First Man Creature of Uganda


Learn about the period of Stone Age in Uganda

The earliest man lived around 60,000-50,000 B.C. This was the early Stone Age man known as Homo erectus.Traces of Humo erectus were found at Nsongezi.

This Stone Era man had the knowledge of making and using stone tools, especially the hand axe.

Between 50,000 and 150,000 B.C, there emerged the middle Stone – Age man

During this period, man invented fire and more stone tools and began to become widely distributed.

Sites of the Middle Stone – Age man can be traced at. Nsongezi and Sango Bay.

The development of the present man is said to have taken place during the period 10,000 to 1,500 B.C.

This falls within the Late Stone –Ege period which is said to have lasted between some five hundred to six hundred years but traces of which still exist in most African societies.

Between A.D. 500 and 1,500 , other people began to migrate from different parts of Africa. The first and largest group of such people was the Bantu. The earliest surviving inhabitants the Bantu found are the pygmaean, Batwa and the Bambuti.

How about the Ealiest man creature in Uganda



The direct ancestor of modern man is said to have been Homo habili.

This creature is said to have had the knowledge of making and using tools. He is thought to have been contemporaneous with Australopithecines, the first creature to walk on two legs. Traces of these most ancient human creatures in Uganda were found in Rusinga and Moroto

The type of creature identified at these sites was Dryopithecus.

It was partially bipedal creature said to give existed as far back as between thirty and fifteen million years ago.




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