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The camp is effaced, its pavilions and lean-tos, at Miná – both Ghawl and Rijám desolate – and the torrent-beds of Er-Raiyán—their traces stripped, made smooth, like old lettering scored on a stone; the ashes – since the people who left them tarried here years have repeated their months ordinary and sacred. … I stopped to ask the place – but how can we question solid rocks, whose speech is incomprehensible? … Labíd ibn Rabi'a, c. 600 CE (trans. after AJ Arberry and Eric Ormsby)
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The Sahara landscape over the Holocene life in the Hoggar (southern Algeria) c.9000 to 4000 BP stratigraphic approaches to reconstructing Saharan vegetation and hydrology a chronology a speculation Nir Krakauer
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the setting Hoggar Aïr Tibesti
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Hoggar Tassili n’Ajjer
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the Tassili n’Ajjer Atlantis, 1990
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Henri Lhote M. Henri Lhote (1956)
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copying the pictures rock… to paper
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the ‘round-headed’, hunting phases
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herding (Bovidian) phases
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What happened? a chronology of Holocene conditions in the Sahara has been reconstructed primarily from the following 14 C datable materials: –ocean sediments –lake-bed carbonates, peat,diatoms –pollen
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the Sahara was dustier at the glacial maximum… Ruddiman 1997
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and less dusty in the mid-Holocene
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Hoelzmann, Jolly et al 1998 pollen sites sabkhas, middens…
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some vegetation mapping: a legend ( E Shulz & coworkers )
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N Africa 8,000 y before-present
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nowadays
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the expandable Chad-Niger basin
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the Servants: some lake level histories Servant and Servant-Vildary 1980
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the P/E index -diatom reconstruction Servant and Servant-Vildary 1980
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savanna desert Lake Chad basin moisture % terr. off Mauritania degradation N Niger pollen Sahel river deposits 14 C ky BP ephemeral braided meandering deflation braided deflation braided ephemeral Tibesti silt terraces aeolian + calcrete human artifacts more sites epi-paleolithic neolithic pottery sheep& cow domestic herding spreads round -head period? Bovidian period? Egypt: Old Kingdom the big picture
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a speculation on the Afroasiatic language family or, Fermi’s question Egyptian 5000 Akkadian 4500 Canaanite 3800 Somali N Arabic 2000 Hausa Amharic 1700 S Arabic 2700
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credits zhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/view/a fricam.htmlhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/view/a fricam.html http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mohamed.sahnoun/Images/algeriamap.jp eghttp://perso.wanadoo.fr/mohamed.sahnoun/Images/algeriamap.jp eg http://www.tara.org.uk/images/tassili.gif http://www.paleologos.com/ http://rsta.pucmm.edu.do/biblioteca/pinacoteca/arte%20prehistor ico/prehistoria%20p1.htmhttp://rsta.pucmm.edu.do/biblioteca/pinacoteca/arte%20prehistor ico/prehistoria%20p1.htm http://home.t-online.de/home/Jochen_Baumann/ttp://home.t-o http://worldroom.tamu.edu/mideast/photos/sts036-152-252.jpg http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/timemachine/images/scan1.g ifhttp://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/timemachine/images/scan1.g if http://www.uni- wuerzburg.de/geographie/fachi/pal_atlas_afrika/index_atlas.htm #starthttp://www.uni- wuerzburg.de/geographie/fachi/pal_atlas_afrika/index_atlas.htm #start http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/languagefamilies.html
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printed references Lhote H (trans. A Brodrick) The Search for the Tassili Frescoes, New York, 1959 Ruddiman WF, Marine Geology 136:189- 207(1997) deMenocal P, J Ortiz et al Quat Sci Rev 16:347- 61(2000) Hoelzmann P, D Jolly et al Global Biogeochem Cycles 12:35-51(1998) Schulz E, Hydrobiologia 214:359-65(1991) Talbot MR, in The Sahara and the Nile (MAJ Williams and H Faure, eds.), 37-62, Rotterdam, 1980 Servant M and Servant-Vildary S, in The Sahara and the Nile (MAJ Williams and H Faure, eds.), 133-162
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