Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers...
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Prehistoric Egypt (section Nabta Playa)
Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC. Also, excavations from Nabta Playa,...
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Architecture of Africa (section Nabta Playa)
Niger between 4700 BCE and 4200 BCE. Cattle funerary sites developed in Nabta Playa (6450 BP/5400 cal BCE), Adrar Bous (6350 BP), in Chin Tafidet, and in...
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predynastic and ancient Egyptian foreign contacts up through 343 BC. In Nabta Playa by the end of the 6th millennium BC, prehistoric Egyptians had imported...
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Sudan and other pastoral societies in Africa today. Megaliths found at Nabta Playa are overt examples of probably the world's first known archaeoastronomy...
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(Barnenez) and Poitou (Bougon). c. 4500 BC: Constructions in south Egypt (Nabta Playa). c. 4300 BC: Constructions in south Spain (Dolmen de Alberite, Cádiz)...
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cattle remains near the Nile dated to 9000 BP and cattle remains near Nabta Playa and Bir Kiseiba reliably dated to 7750 BP, domesticated cattle may have...
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northeast Africa was found in the archaeological sites of Bir Kiseiba and Nabta Playa in what is now southwest Egypt. Domestication of sheep and goats reached...
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archaeological sites, including Elephantine, an island on the Nile River, Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert, and Kerma in present-day Sudan. This type of artifact...
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Egypt, Bashendi-like groups have also inhabited the Farafra Oasis, and Nabta Playa, to the south. The Bashendi used sandstone grinders to grind local wild...
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