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Landmark Africa archaeological

Tassili n'Ajjer

8000 BCE – 1500 BCE · 6,500 years

Saharan plateau in Algeria with over 15,000 Neolithic rock engravings and paintings depicting a green Sahara teeming with cattle and wildlife

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. Saharan Pastoral Nomads (2000 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–600 CE)
  4. Saharan Nomadic Tribes (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (800 CE)
  6. Tuaregs (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1100 CE)
  8. Tuareg Nomadic Tribes (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Tuareg (1279 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1300 CE–1900 CE)
  11. Algeria (1914 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Algeria (France) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Algeria (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

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Bantu

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

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Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

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Berbers

Attested 1500 BCE – 900 CE

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Victoria Falls

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 8000 BCE and 1500 BCE.

3000 BCE Laas Geel 2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 8000 BCE Kuk Early Agricultural Site 7500 BCE Çatalhöyük 7300 BCE Cueva de las Manos

And in the rest of the world

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