Stillbay

Site on Cape Province, South Africa, with an assemblage of Late Paleolithic stone tools and dating c 30,000-50,000 years ago. The stone flake culture reached from Ethiopia to South Africa along the eastern coast and produced a variety of stone tools that are similar to the Mousterian industry of North Africa and Europe. Tools were made generally by the Levallois stone-flaking technique and the Stillbay industry also included leaf-shaped bifacial points. Some archaeologists now use a series of more local designations, such as Bambata in Zimbabwe, to describe the culture of that time.

Site on the Cape coast of South Africa which yielded a poorly defined stone tool assemblage of ‘Middle Stone Age’ type. The name Stillbay was formerly used over a wide area of southern and eastern Africa to designate industries of this general type. The term has now been replaced by a series of more local designations, such as Bambata in Zimbabwe.