Around 5,000 years ago, the Sahara was a lush, humid landscape with a chain of lakes and waterways linking West, East, and North Africa in what is known as the African Humid Period.
Bro love your work you should check out my documentary on the Green Sahara. I made it about a year ago I'm actually pretty sure it's the reason people have been suddenly talking about the Green Sahara all of sudden. https://youtu.be/pHDRJaMGLlU?si=FMLDr8ygvJlPkcWY
Very great read. I have not been keeping up on African History really since 2022, so I wanted to ask: is the hypothesis from scholars like MacDonald that West African Neolithic cultures largely descend from a Central African microlithic culture that migrated west from Shum Laka <30kya still tenable?
Thanks for this especially since the AHP having been in the press a lot lately this was right on time, thank you always.
grateful!
Bro love your work you should check out my documentary on the Green Sahara. I made it about a year ago I'm actually pretty sure it's the reason people have been suddenly talking about the Green Sahara all of sudden. https://youtu.be/pHDRJaMGLlU?si=FMLDr8ygvJlPkcWY
Very great read. I have not been keeping up on African History really since 2022, so I wanted to ask: is the hypothesis from scholars like MacDonald that West African Neolithic cultures largely descend from a Central African microlithic culture that migrated west from Shum Laka <30kya still tenable?
I haven't looked that up yet, but I think there were multiple paths to the emergence of the Neolithic, rather than a single starting point