The Five Point Nine Kilo Year Event

Nakada is in what we would refer to as upper egypt, on the banks of the nile. Nakada cultures are split into three separate cultural periods: amratian, gursian and semanian. In around 3 thousand, 900 b c e, there was an intense aridification,. certainly in the northern hemisphere. The event is called the five point nine kilo year event - it occurred five point nine thousand years ago. We believe that it did trigger human migration to wetter and more fertile areas such as the nile valley. Maybe mesopotamians were forced to the river's edges in the same way. And societies were forced to adapt, leading to