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Tissouirine and the Maghreb Escargotières. A Neolithic Settlement Built from Fire, Food and Shell
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> “Maghreb zone escargotières” is not the name of one archaeological settlement. Escargotière (“snailery”) is an archaeological term for a prehistoric shell-and-ash midden, especially common across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. An excellent example, the Escargotière (“snailery”)lies in the Atlantic…
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A Neolithic lake settlement in Egypts west deserts Green Sahara was Gebel Ramlah
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Gebel Ramlah is one of the most remarkable Neolithic archaeological landscapes in Egypt. Not because it was a large stone-built city, but because it preserves the story of people living beside a seasonal lake in what is now one…
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From a long time ago in Egypt. A neolithic settlement built around water: KS043 or the Kharga Oasis
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> KS043, usually written KS43 in some publications, is one of the most revealing Late Neolithic sites in Egypt’s Western Desert. It was occupied roughly 5000–3950 cal BC, with the main occupation concentrated around 4600–4350 BC; the original excavation publication…
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El Omari was a a Neolithic settlement. It was located between the Nile, the desert & Wadi Hof
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> El Omari is one of the most interesting early Neolithic settlements in northern Egypt because it sat directly at the meeting point of three environments: Nile floodplain, desert edge, and Wadi HofIt was not a huge mudbrick city. It…
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Did Nabta Playa Have Prehistoric Astronomy? How Much Was Coincidence Versus Intentional Cosmology? Stone Alignments, Possible Star Tracking, & Early Cattle Cults (c. 6000–4000 BCE)
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Long before the pyramids of ancient Egypt, pastoral communities gathered around seasonal lakes in the western deserts of northeastern Africa. At a site known as Nabta Playa, archaeologists uncovered stone circles, alignments, ceremonial structures, and evidence for cattle-focused ritual…
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Protected: The Gedeo Cultural Landscape in a later occuring Ethiopian neolithic settlement. Rooted in ancient practices. It has demonstrated sustaibable agroforestry
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Protected: Melka Kunture is ancient Ethiopian site. Showing long term human occupation; & intensive obsidian, & tool production
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Protected: One of the most important holocene sites. Mochena Borago shows tranformation from hunter gatherer to early pottery. In a climate during the neolithic tied to change
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A long term occupation, showing early human adaptability & strength. Fincha habera is a high altitude settlement at 4000 meters. Its reliable water & vegitation date to the neolithic time period(s)
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Protected: Laas Geel shows early cattle, humans & pastoral symbolism
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