The Green Sahara and African Neolithics

Tides of History

• Episode: The Green Sahara and African Neolithics
• Website: Tides of History
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• Duration: 00:44:32
• Published: 2022-03-03 09:01

The most striking environmental shift on the planet in the Holocene epoch was the greening of the Sahara. For thousands of years, the now-deserts of northern Africa were a mosaic of savannahs, river valleys, and shallow lakes. This unique environment produced the ways of life that eventually brought pastoralism and food production, as well as a variety of language families and populations, to the furthest corners of the continent.

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