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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Evergreen: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Evergreen: [qb] Excerpt from Africa: A Biography of the Continent By John Reader “Dating from more than 15,000 years ago, the evidence from the Nile valley is arguably the earliest comprehensive instance of an organized food-producing system known anywhere on Earth. Given time, this pioneering system might have developed into the stupendous civilizations that ruled ancient Egypt for two and a half millennia from about 5,000 years ago. But it could never be. Disaster struck the Nile valley as its population reached a peak, and by 10,000 years ago occupation density had plunged to a level only slighltly above that known for the time of the Wadi Kubbaniya site.” [/qb][/QUOTE]Evergreen Writes: However, we now know that Reader is incorrect, the "earliest comprehensive instance of an organized food-producing system known anywhere on Earth" did not come to an end with the onset of the Holocene. We now know that this African agricultural system branched off into two directions: 1. West into the emerging fertile Sahara (Sahel) west of the Nile. This culture merged with West African elements to form the Sarahan Neolithic and it later back-migrated into the Nile during the late Neolithic to form the Egyptian pre-dynastic. 2. Up the Nile valley and out of the delta into the Levant and around the circum-Mediterranean Basin to form the neolithic cultures of the Middle Eastern, Europe and Indus Valey. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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