Capsian culture

Capsien is a North African epipaläolithische culture in transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic period. This culture existed 9000-3000 BC It is named after the ancient city Capsa, today Gafsa in Tunisia. Most discoveries have been made on the Algerian and Tunisian plateaus.

Typically, back blade and back blades and microliths find as triangles, rectangles and trapezoids. Ostrich eggs are used as container and decorated with incised patterns. This material is also found in the form of round, pierced beads. For the first time, there are figurative representations.

The Capsien preceded the arteries, in some places were found between arteries and Capsien traces of Ibéromaurusien. In the Capsien falls also the time of the North African rock art. The early settlements were usually on high ground. At the Chott ( dried salt lakes) are Køkkenmøddinger as they are also known from the coasts of Europe. There were enormous amounts of snail shells, as the animals were food purposes. The diet was that of hunter-gatherers. Dead burials with grave goods and ocher were known. The Capsier began to keep goats and sheep, possibly corn was at that time already, as in Dar Tichitt grown.