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Early Holocene societies in the Egyptian Sahara
(Barich 1998: 81-88)

7500-6500 BC Early Neolithic of El Adam type

many grinding stones, primary meat: hare and gazelle, few cattle bones
ceramics
microlith stone industry

Nabta/Kiseiba region
6500-6200 BC El Ghorab Early Neolithic   Nabta region,
6100-5900 BC El Nabta Neolithic grinding stones, cereal grains, hare and gazelle, few cattle bones, Nabta region
after 5000 BC   increase in the size of sites and in population Nabta region

 


 

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