Maps of Nilo-Saharan
Africa Before the Agricultural Age (Ehret)
Proposed Early Lands of Afrasan, Middle Nile, Khoisan, and Niger-Congo Traditions
Map Creator:
Christopher Ehret
Source: The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. 2002. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. p. 37.
Date Created: 2002.
Map Description:
Outlined on this map are the locations that Ehret hypothesizes gave rise to the Afrasan, Middle Nile, Khoisan and Niger-Congo traditions. In his book, he describes how each area affected the development of these ancient cultures as well as some of their differences, citing examples such as the Afrasan reliance on wild grass collection for food, and Middle Nile tendency to hunt large game and fish.
Source: The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. 2002. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. p. 37.
Date Created: 2002.
Map Description:
Outlined on this map are the locations that Ehret hypothesizes gave rise to the Afrasan, Middle Nile, Khoisan and Niger-Congo traditions. In his book, he describes how each area affected the development of these ancient cultures as well as some of their differences, citing examples such as the Afrasan reliance on wild grass collection for food, and Middle Nile tendency to hunt large game and fish.
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Nilo-Saharan Dispersal (Blench)
Nilo-Saharan Dispersal
Map Creator:
Roger Blench
Source: Blench, Roger. 2006. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. Lanham: AltaMira Press
Map Description:
This maps illustrates the dispersal of Nilo-Saharan languages between 18.000 BP and 2.000 BP. With the gradual migration of groups, the language family split into many different languages and is now one of the four main groupings found in Africa today.
Source: Blench, Roger. 2006. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. Lanham: AltaMira Press
Map Description:
This maps illustrates the dispersal of Nilo-Saharan languages between 18.000 BP and 2.000 BP. With the gradual migration of groups, the language family split into many different languages and is now one of the four main groupings found in Africa today.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered
for compatibility with our project interface. Slight
imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration
process.
View
original image(s)to see the unaltered map(s).