Fertile Crescent: Europe: Africa: Siberia: The Sangoan is the name given by archaeologists to a Palaeolithic tool manufacturing style[1] which may have developed from the earlier Acheulian types.
[2] As originally proposed, the Sangoan period was broadly analogous to the Mousterian culture in Europe and was dated to about 130 to 10 thousand years (kya).
Although Desmond Clark considered the complex to be tied to the tropical forest, the peoples who used Sangoan tools were hunting and gathering cultures, also known as the Sangoan, occupied southern Africa in areas where annual rainfall now is less than 1,016 millimetres (40.0 in) and Central African areas whose rainfall is above 2000 mm from the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.
The Sangoan industry was distributed broadly from present day Botswana to Ethiopia and from Uganda to Angola and Gabon.
[3] In the Kalahari Desert, many prehistoric stone tools have been recovered by archaeologists dating at least as early as the period of the Sangoan culture.