Kalambo Falls

Kalambo Falls
/keuh lahm"boh/
an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years B.P. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.

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▪ waterfall, East Africa
      waterfall, the second highest uninterrupted fall in Africa (after Tugela Falls, South Africa), located on the Kalambo River near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the Tanzania-Zambia border. The 704-foot (215-metre) drop in the falls is only part of a 3,000-foot (900-metre) descent along a 6-mile (10-kilometre) section of the Kalambo River. In the abyss is the breeding ground of the rare, giant marabou stork. Primitive tools have been excavated from Kalambo Gorge and dated by radiocarbon from 300,000 BC.

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