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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] Drake (2010) with Blench as writer and edited by bar-Yosef doesn't see Holocene peopling of the central Sahara by Gafsian but by Saharo-Sudanese/Aqualithic culture with Nilo-Saharan speakers (as are Tubu) [QUOTE][i] We hypothesize that the differences in animal resources between the northern and southern Sahara during the early Holocene influenced the way it was peopled by humans. The north–south contrast in Saharan species ranges are remarkably similar to some key lithic, bone tool, and linguistic spatial distributions, suggesting that the peopling of the region during the early Holocene humid phase was driven by cultural adaptations that allowed exploitation of specific fauna. The early Holocene archaeology of the Sahara is characterized by a regional distribution of specific archaeological cultures, such as those defined by barbed bone points, fishhooks, Ounanian arrow-points, and, more controversially, pottery (32, 35–38). The Sahara today is largely populated by speakers of Afroasiatic languages, Berber and Arabic, with some Nilo-Saharan languages (Teda-Daza and Zaghawa) in the region of Northern Chad, and Songhay cluster languages scattered across Mali and Niger (Fig. 3). However, it is clear that this situation is recent; Berber speaking Tuareg moved into the Central Sahara [URL=http://underscore]~1500 y ago ... Before this time, the central and southern Sahara are thought to have been populated by Nilo-Saharan speakers.[/URL][/i] [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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