ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Santa Barbara City College, Nabta Playa, Kuk Swamp
Document Summary
Between 14,000-15,000 years ago, sahara was much wetter than it is now. Example: gobero, niger (9,700 to 8,200 years ago) - over 200 human remains found. Fish was a large part of the diet. Here we get a glimpse at an attempt of domestication - sheep were not. Some have thought that cattle burials were a sign of a cattle cult; found petroglyphs at the site. Earliest plant domestication in egypt 7,000 years ago. Evidence of small circular huts, baskets, and thresholds found. The fact that we do not find burials under the huts suggests that families did not have ownership or rights to their houses. Sedentary hunter-gatherers as early as 9,000 years ago. Pigs and sweet potatoes are essential to the sustenance and political economy of. Elaboration of wetland reclamation 7,000 if not 10,000 years ago. People are completely modifying this land in order to make things grow.
