In the later Holocene, fishers and hunter-gatherers in Northern Africa created pottery that was characterized by decorative incised and dotted wavy lines.
[3] These people lived during the African humid period in semi-permanent and permanent settlements around the numerous bodies of water that existed in the now-arid regions of North and East Africa.
The oldest evidence comes from the sites of Tagalagal and Adrar Bous 10 in Niger where thermoluminescence dates hint to ca.
Dotted wavy line pottery includes short and long waves, as well as arch-shaped motifs.
These tools included combs, pronged instruments, and spatulas made of animal products, such as bone or mollusk shell, plants and wood, or clay.
[3] Similar pottery, also characterized by incised and dotted wavy lines, along with barbed bone points, was discovered in the Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya.