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The Green Sahara and African Neolithics

Tides of History

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The African Humid Period and the Green Sahara

A study led by the archaeologist mary prendergast shed some light on the ancestry of this newly widespread group of pastoralists. The end of the african humid period and the green sahara was a rapid, but not overnight event. Conditions grew steadily drier between seven thousand and six thousand years ago,. precisely the od when the pastoral way of life spread out across the region.

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