Kalambo Falls

American  

[kuh-lahm-boh] / kəˈlɑm boʊ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

There is only one older piece of evidence of wood used by humans, from the Kalambo Falls site in Zambia, dating to around 476,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

The Kalambo Falls logs were determined to be from about 476,000 years ago.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023

Barham’s team found the two logs in sandy sediments beside a river basin above the Kalambo Falls in 2019.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

But in the meandering riverbanks above the Kalambo Falls, close to the Zambia-Tanzania border, it was waterlogged and essentially pickled for millennia.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

Every archaeological dig at Kalambo Falls is a race against time.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 2023