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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabta_Playa wiki Nabta Playa Archaeological findings indicate the presence of small seasonal camps in the region dating to the 9th–8th millennia BC.[2] [b]Fred Wendorf,[/b] the site's discoverer, and ethno-linguist [b]Christopher Ehret[/b] have suggested that the people who occupied this region at that time may have been early pastoralists, or like the Saami practiced semi-pastoralism.[2] This is disputed by other sources as the cattle remains found at Nabta have been shown to be morphologically wild in several studies, and hunter-gatherers at the nearby Saharan site of Uan Afada in Libya were penning wild Barbary sheep, an animal that was never domesticated.[6] According to Michael Brass (2018) early cattle remains from Nabta Playa were wild hunted aurochs, whilst domesticated cattle were introduced to northeast Africa in the late 7th millennium BC, originating from cattle domesticated in the Euphrates valley.[7] [QUOTE] https://web.archive.org/web/20110806140123/http://www.comp-archaeology.org/WendorfSAA98.html Added March 1998. Updated November 26, 2000. Late Neolithic megalithic structures at Nabta Playa (Sahara), southwestern Egypt. By Fred Wendorf Anthropology Department Southern Methodist University The geographic position of the Nabta center is also of interest. Nabta may have been a contact point between the early Neolithic groups along the Nile who had an agricultural economy and the cattle pastoralists in the Eastern Sahara. The functional separation of these two different economies may have played a significant role in the emergence of complexity among both groups. The evidence for Nilotic influence on pastoralists is not extensive and is presently limited to ceramic technology, domestic caprovids, and the occasional trade of shells of Nile species and rare stones from the Nile gravel. However, there are many aspects of political and ceremonial life in the Predynastic and Old Kingdom that reflects a strong impact from Saharan cattle pastoralists. The likely possibility of a symbiotic relationship between the cattle pastoralists in the Sahara and the Neolithic groups in the Nile Valley points to a potentially important role for the Nabta regional ceremonial center. Among East African cattle pastoralists regional ceremonial centers, because of their integrative role, are frequently placed near boundaries between different segments of a tribe, or between different tribal groups. The Nabta center could well have served that purpose, it could have been located between several groups of pastoralists, and between pastoralists and the Neolithic farmers along the Nile, 100 km away. [/QUOTE]further information, Nabta Playa/Nilo-Saharan https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=nabta+playa+nilo-saharan+&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&as_ylo=2016&as_yhi= [/QB][/QUOTE]
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