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[QUOTE]Originally posted by capra: [QB] The crops grown in Egypt were temperate zone wheat, barley, etc, not suited to the tropics - eventually they were adapted to highlands of East Africa but it took a long time. The Eastern Bantu had tropical crops domesticated in the Sahel/Savanna zone - pearl millet, sorghum, cowpea, etc. The Bantu didn't necessarily bring all - or any - of these crops to (the northern part of) East Africa originally. If they went through the rainforest growing yams and spreading oil-fruit trees, as may be the case, they may have switched over to completely different crops when they spread into drier parts of East Africa. But they did later carry this crop package south of Tanzania, by all evidence. Oh hey this came out yesterday! Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the Butana Group. Cool! Previously there was earlier evidence of domesticated sorghum in [i]India[/i] than in Africa itself. The people growing this might have been among the ancestors of the Tanzania_Luxmanda_3100BP. So looks like you are right, Lioness, at least kind of. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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