c. 9250 BCEEvent
Microlithic Late Stone Age occupation at Iwo Eleru
The rock shelter at Iwo Eleru in present Ondo State produced a microlithic (small stone tool) industry without pottery or ground stone axes.
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c. 9250 BCE
Microlithic Late Stone Age occupation at Iwo Eleru
The rock shelter at Iwo Eleru in present Ondo State produced a microlithic (small stone tool) industry without pottery or ground stone axes.
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The rock shelter at Iwo Eleru in present Ondo State produced a microlithic (small stone tool) industry without pottery or ground stone axes. A radiocarbon date of 9250 BCE ± 200 was obtained near the base of the lower level. A negroid skeleton from the site dates to the beginning of the 9th millennium BCE.