Nilo-Saharan Peoples Produce Food and Pottery
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Arts, Agriculture, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Crafts, Farms, Farming, Rural Life, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Sudan
- Date: c. 9000-c. 7000
Article abstract: Ancient Nilo-Saharan peoples are believed to have been the producers of the first African pottery and to have initiated the African domestication of cattle and cultivation of the grain sorghum.
Summary of Event
Nilo-Saharan peoples can be defined as those populations who inhabited territory west of the Red Sea Hills up to the Nile River region in the period 9000-7000 b.c.e. Nilo-Saharans were among the first food producers in the world. In particular they began to domesticate African wild grasses and to raise wild cattle, both of which...
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