section_path: Chronology/African chronology/Middle Stone Age (MSA)
section_name: Middle Stone Age (MSA)
paragraph_text: Middle Stone Age (MSA)
  
  The Middle Stone Age was a period of African prehistory between Early Stone Age and Late Stone Age. It began around 300,000 years ago and ended around 50,000 years ago. It is considered as an equivalent of European Middle Paleolithic. It is associated with anatomically modern or almost modern Homo sapiens. Early physical evidence comes from Omo and Herto, both in Ethiopia and dated respectively at c. 195 ka and at c. 160 ka.