Somaliland Central
What you need to know about Somaliland's SovereigntyHeritage Somaliland - Laas Geel
Origins of Somaliland Civilization:
The Neolithic Age
Paleolithic Times: 12,000 years ago
Precursor to Neolithic 4000 to circa 2,500 BCE
Hunting and gathering
Subsistence living
Later Paleolithic people included some permanent and semi-permanent communities
World Population estimated between 5-8 million
Paleolithic Art:
First time human expression appears through art
Bone Jewelry
Cave paintings – mostly of daily hunting and life
Paleolithic Tools:
“Old Stone Age” tools were crude tools made from stone, wood or bone.
Mostly larger tools that were chipped from a single rock
Relics of Somaliland Stone Age
Widespread Similarity of Men of the Stone Age
On the left is a flint implement excavated in Gray’s Inn Lane.
London: on the right one of similar form chipped by primitive men of Somaliland (British Museum)
Chart implements from Somaliland. In general form they are similar to those found in Western and Northern Europe (British Museum)