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Tukuler
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Then again maybe it was the Silsillian?

Complicating everything, however, is the discovery of a coexisting industry now labeled Silsillian (c. 13,000 BC)[url] which effectively puts the early Egyptians back at the forefront of prehistoric technological development. [url=underline]Sisillian was a highly-developed microblade industry that included truncated blades, blades of unusual shapes made specifically for one task, and most significant of all, a wide variety of bladelets for mounting onto spears, darts, and arrows. There is almost no trace of earlier techniques such as Levalloisian, and Silsillian blades in some cases are thousands of years ahead of anything found in Europe from this period. The Silsillian Industry also premiered the creation of microliths. Microliths are small, fine blades used in advanced tools such as arrows, harpoons, and sickles, and since they are smaller, use less material. This latter development may have been due to the fact that in the Kom Ombo area, high-quality stone was in short supply. Additionally, the fact that these blades were used for agricultural tools such as sickles shows that by this time basic farming had begun, and earlier than had been previously thought.

Excerpts courtesy of TourEgypt Egypt History - The Upper Paleolithic page.

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Tukuler
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Wait! What about the Qadan?

The Qadan (13,000 - 9,000 BC) sites, stretching from the Second Cataract of the Nile to Tushka (about 250 km upriver from Aswan), actually have cemeteries and evidence of ritual burial. It is also during this time that the first great experiments in ordered agriculture began. Grinding stones and blades have been found in great numbers with a glossy film of silica on them, possibly the result of cut grass stems. Sadly, as stone preserves better than straw baskets or satchels, the extent of agriculture from this period can not be determined. It may not have been true agriculture as we know it, but rather a sort of systematic "caring for" the local plant life (watering and harvesting, but as yet no planting in ordered rows and the like).

Excerpts courtesy of TourEgypt Egypt History - The Upper Paleolithic page.

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Tukuler
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Now I seem to recall these Sebilians,
Silsillians, and Qadans mentioned long
ago on ES but you know how memory can be.

Anyway, what I gather is, these initial 'test
runs' of agriculture that were cut short on the
Nile moved northeast with Mushabeans to the Levant
with its own plant set as Lower Nile climate changes
led back to hunting gathering fishing as more reliable
economies along the Nile vs Gaza Strip & Jordan Valley.

Oh, and for whatever it's worth, remember
in situ Narmer artifacts in Canaan speak to
an already in place connection between the
Levant and predynastic Egypt this pharaoh
politically exploited. Not that it goes
that far back.

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Tukuler
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Yellen (1998) Barbed Bone Points: Tradition
and Continuity in Saharan and Sub-Saharan
Africa tells of Natufian finds in the Fayum.

Anything to that or is it the only (and outdated) mention?

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