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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," "Aurignacian," "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 definition throughout the continent.

Revision: Congrès de Nairobi 3 (#3)

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