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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] Here's a link to the discovery of the Dufuna boat in Nigeria (Dufuna), relatively close to Niger and Lake Chad. [b]The oldest boat in Africa, third in the world.[/b] Again, this may be one of the technology of the Sahara-Sahel-Nile civilization used during the early Holocene to populate the green Sahara, moving along rivers. [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/Dafunaboat-AfricasOldestKnownBoatthirdintheworld.jpg[/IMG] From: http://www.panafprehistory.org/images/papers/THE_8000-_YEAR-_OLD_DUGOUT_CANOE_FROM_DUFUNA_NEGERIA_Peter_Breunig_1.pdf (interesting read) According to the document: [QUOTE] The bow and stern are both carefully worked to points, giving the boat a notably more elegant form than finds of similar age from Mesolithic Europe, such as the aforementioned dugout made of conifer wood from Pesse in the Netherlands (Van Zeist 1957), whose blunt ends and thick sides seem crude in comparison with Dufuna. [b]It is highly probable that the Dufuna boat does not represent the beginning of a tradition, but had already undergone a long development, and that the origins of water transport in Africa lie even further back in time.[/b] [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] If these assumptions are correct, the makers of the dugout belonged to a population which spread along the southern edge of the [b]Sahara[/b] , from north Kenya through the central Sudanese [b]Nile Valley[/b] to the [b]western Sahara[/b] , and adapted to the resources of the lakes of the early and mid- [b]Holocene wet phase[/b] . [/QUOTE]Again linking the Sahara-Sahel-Nile civilization. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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