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Tropical Africa is a moist continent, not conducive to the conservation of objects. The remainings of ancient civilizations are scarce. It will be noted in the sale of Sotheby's in New York on May 15 a wooden figure from Mali for which a carbon-14 dating provides an age of six to nine centuries. So it was created before the European explorations and before the installation of the Dogons in the r…