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PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS ON
PREHISTORY.

JANUARY, 1947.
All correspondence to be addressed to Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, Organising
Secretary, P.O. Box 658, Nairobi, Kenya.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

GENERAL.
The Government of Kenya has agreed that a Pan-African
Congress on Prehistory (Archaeology) shall be convened in
Nairobi, Kenya Colony, during January, 1947.
The Congress will be concerned with the prehistory of the
African continent and the discussions will also include relevant
subjects, such as
(a) those aspects of palaeontology which intimately concern
prehistory, such as the use of fossils for dating deposits,
and the <u>question of African fossil ape remains and their
relation to the problem of the origin of man</u>;
(b) climatic changes-pluvials and glacials-in relation to prehistory; and
(c) quarternary geology in relation to prehistory.

The provisional programme for the Congress will be found
at the end of this notice. It will be noted that it is proposed that
the Congress should be divided into two parts. The first three
and a half days will be devoted to discussions upon problems
of a general nature, including the following:
(a) Discussion as to the terminology to be used in describing
the various pluvial periods and post-pluvial phases of
the Pleistocene, with a view to reaching an agreed
terminology for use by all African research workers.
(b) Discussion with a view to determining an agreed
terminology for describing stone-age cultures in Africa,
more particularly to agree on definitions of such terms
as "Abbvillian," "Acheulean," "Levalloisian," "Aurigna-
cian," "Capsian," "Tumbian," "Sangoan," "Fauresmith,"
"Magosian," "Smithfield," "Stillbay," "Aterian," etc.
(c) To discuss the definitions of the words "Pliocene" and
"Pleistocene" with a view to reaching an agreed defini-
tion throughout the continent.

Revision: Congrès de Nairobi 3 (#3)

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