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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Yonis: [qb] [QUOTE]Lamin: One might note too that the people who are now called West Africans have only been in the West Africa region for at most 3,000 years. There have been migrations Westward and Southward in relatively recent times. The recent so-called Bantu expansion from West-Central Africa to Southern Africa testifies to this. [/QUOTE]So where did the West Africans migrate from 3000 years ago? Didn't the bantu expansion start from West Africa or Cameroon to be precise? [/qb][/QUOTE]The Bantu expansion has nothing to do with West Africans above the Congo. Thw West Atlantic speakers and Mande for example originated in the Saharan highlands and were associated with the C-Group people. Wm. Welmers (1971) has postulated an original homeland for the Niger-Congo Superset in the general vicinity of the Upper Nile. Ehret and Posnansky (1982) has suggested that the Mande diverged from the Kwa around 5000-4000 BC Dr. Welmers (1971) has hypothesized that around 3000 BC the Mande languages separated into Northern and Southeastern branches. In the Sahelian zone there was a short wet phase during the Holocene (c. 7500-4400 BC), which led to the formation of large lakes and marshes in Mauritania, the Niger massifs and Chad. The Inland Niger Delta was unoccupied. In other parts of the Niger area the wet phase existed in the eight/seventh and fourth/third millennia BC (McIntosh & McIntosh 1986:417). There were few habitable sites in West Africa during the Holocene wet phase. McIntosh and McIntosh (1986) have illustrated that the only human occupation of the Sahara during this period were the Saharan massifs along wadis. By the 8th millennium BC Saharan-Sudanese pottery was used in the Air (Roset 1983). Ceramics of this style have also been found at sites in the Hoggar (McIntosh & McIntosh 1983b:230). Dotted wavy-line pottery has also been discovered in the Libyan Sahara (Barich 1985). The inhabitants of the Fezzan were roundhead blacks (Jelinek 1985:273). [IMG]http://www.the153club.org/Sahara-14.jpg[/IMG] The cultural characteristics of the Fezzanese were analogous to C-Group culture items and people of Nubia (Quellec 1985; Jelinek 1985). The C-Group people occupied the Sudan and Fezzan regions between 3700-1300 BC (Close 1988). [b] C-Group King [/b] [IMG]http://www.dignubia.org/maps/timeline/img/b2300a-c-group-king.gif[/IMG] These early Paleo-Africans of Libya were called the Temehu by the Egyptians (Behrens 1984:30). Ethnically the Temehu had the same physical features of black African people (Quellec 1985; Jelinek 1985; Diop 1984:72). [b] Red-and-Black Pottery[/b] [IMG]http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/CR4906.jpg[/IMG] These C-Group people used a common black-and-red ware. B.B. Lal (1963) of the Indian Expedition in the Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia proved that the Dravidian people probably originally lived in middle Africa before they settled South India. The Proto-Mande speakers in the Saharan highlands were probably one of the numerous C-Group tribes settled in this area (1986b). If we accept this hypothesis the C-Group people would represent a collection of ethnic groups that later became the Supersets we now find in the fragmentation belt, such as the Niger-Congo speakers Greenberg (1970) believes early domesticated ovicaprids. The origin of the Mande among the sedentary pastoral C-Group ethnic groups supports the linguistic data indicating an early Mande domestication of cattle. In summary people presently living above Congo came from Nubia and the Fezzan. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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