As in the records of Niger River outflow and Sahara dust flux, the African Humid Period is easily identified in the dD wax record from Lake Tanganyika as the very low dD wax values that occur ...

This Green Sahara existed during the African Humid Period, which peaked about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago. During this time, pastoralism spread in the Green Sahara. The people raised cattle that ...

However, during the early to mid-Holocene, an extended period of wet conditions prevailed across the Sahara Desert region, ...

Recent research has revealed surprising details about the prehistoric population of North Africa thanks to the genetic analysis of two individuals naturally mummified more than 7,000 years ago in the ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

The sandy dunes of the Sahara may seem an unlikely place for a dairy farm, but about 7,000 years ago, herders tended and milked cattle in what is now desolate desert, new research shows.

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Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not a dry land; it had rivers, lakes, and lush grasslands. This period is known as the African Humid Period.

The images depict a period approximately 6,000-11,000 years ago called the Green Sahara or North African Humid Period. There is widespread climatological ...

Researchers did detect traces of Neanderthal DNA in the Takarkori individuals—10 times less than people living outside of Africa had, but more than contemporary sub-Saharan Africans.

To the point. DNA analysis from two naturally mummified individuals from Libya: More than 7,000 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period (Green Sahara), a long isolated human lineage ...