Daima mound occupation begins; earliest iron-free levels

Daima is a large mound in Bornu on the firki lands south of Lake Chad, in which the lower levels represent the accumulated occupation debris of Late Stone Age people beginning around 600 BC. The radiocarbon dates indicate that this settlement began rather later than Kursakata and Shilma. Material equipment includes ground stone axes, bone tools and barbed bone harpoons; there were also bones of cattle, sheep and goats from these earliest levels, as well as small fired clay figurines of animals.