Editing Ivory Coast (section)

===Land migration===
[[File:Cistones.jpg|thumb|Prehistoric polished stone [[celt (tool)|celt]] from [[Boundiali]] in northern Ivory Coast, photo taken at the [[IFAN Museum of African Arts]] in [[Dakar]], Senegal]]

The first human presence in Ivory Coast has been difficult to determine because human remains have not been well preserved in the country's humid climate. However, newly found weapon and tool fragments (specifically, polished axes cut through [[shale]] and remnants of cooking and fishing) have been interpreted as a possible indication of a large human presence during the [[Upper Paleolithic]] period (15,000 to 10,000 BC),<ref>{{cite journal|last=Guédé|first=François Yiodé|title=Contribution à l'étude du paléolithique de la Côte d'Ivoire : État des connaissances|year=1995|journal=Journal des Africanistes|volume=65|issue=2|pages=79–91|doi=10.3406/jafr.1995.2432}}</ref> or at the minimum, the [[Neolithic]] period.<ref>{{Harvnb|Rougerie|1978|p=246}}</ref>

The earliest known inhabitants of Ivory Coast have left traces scattered throughout the territory. Historians believe that they were all either displaced or absorbed by the ancestors of the present indigenous inhabitants,<ref name=":0">{{Harvnb|Warner|1988|p=5}}.</ref> who migrated south into the area before the 16th century. Such groups included the Ehotilé ([[Aboisso]]), Kotrowou (Fresco), Zéhiri ([[Grand-Lahou]]), Ega and Diès ([[Divo, Ivory Coast|Divo]]).<ref>{{Harvnb|Kipré|1992|pp=15–16}}</ref>