Social:Kiffian culture
Characteristics
The Kiffians were skilled hunters. Bones of many large savannah animals that were discovered in the same area suggest that they lived on the shores of a lake that was present during the Holocene Wet Phase, a period when the Sahara desert was verdant and wet.[1]
The Kiffian people were tall, standing over six feet in height.[2] Craniometric analysis indicates that this early Holocene population was closely related to the Late Pleistocene Iberomaurusians and early Holocene Capsians of the Maghreb, as well as mid-Holocene Mechta groups.[3]
Decline
Traces of the Kiffian culture do not exist after 6,000 BC ago, as the Sahara went through a dry period for the next thousand years.[4] After this time, the Tenerian culture colonized the area.
See also
- Aterian
- Ifri n'Amr or Moussa
- Kelif el Boroud
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedscidaily - ↑ "Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change". PLoS ONE 3 (8): e2995. 2008. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002995. PMID 18701936. PMC 2515196. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002995.PDF. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Schultz, Nora (2008-08-14). "Stone Age mass graves reveal green Sahara". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14536-stone-age-mass-graves-reveal-green-sahara.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn14536. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
4. Kamrani, Kambiz. "The Kiffian & Tenerean Occupation Of Gobero, Niger: Perhaps The Largest Collection Of Early-Mid Holocene People In Africa." Anthropology.net. N.p., 14 Thursday August 2008. Web. 01 Jan. 2015. (http://anthropology.net/2008/08/14/the-kiffian-tenerean-occupation-of-gobero-niger-perhaps-the-largest-collection-of-early-mid-holocene-people-in-africa/)
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