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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] [b]Exodus of Nabta Playa inhabitants toward the Nile:[/b] [IMG]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y421/amunratheultimate2/Misc/NabtaPlayaandAncientEgypt-ExodustowardtheNile_zpsaf723475.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y421/amunratheultimate2/Misc/NabtaPlayaandAncientEgypt-ExodustowardtheNile93_zps6d60670d.jpg[/IMG] Climate change and the dessication of the green Sahara led to the exodus of Nabta Playa inhabitants toward the Nile. In text form: [b]The people of Nabta may have been the last dwellers of this marginal environment. As intense drought conditions persisted, water sources dried up, and the grassland disappeared -6000 years B.P.; the area of Nabta was inhospitable after 5300 years ago, which correlates to 3350 B.C.E. (before the Common Era). The "terminal" date for final occupation at Nabta is around 4780 B.P., as hyperaridity prevailed, and the Sahara was fully established. This profound environmental change precipitated migration, an "Exodus event" in which humans left the desert locales for reliable water sources, as evinced by the rising population along the Nile [Midant-Reynes, 1992; Malville et al., 1998]. As the Nabtan people relocated, they inevitably contributed their own culture and beliefs to the birth of ancient Egyptian religion and the Pharonic civilization, which organized its empire around irrigation agriculture within the overpopulated confines of the Nile Valley [Krzyzaniak; 1991; Nicoll, 2004]. [/b] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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