Maps of Benue-Congo

Origin and Spread of Agriculture Associated with Language Families South of the Sahara and West of Ethiopia (Newman)


Origin and Spread of Agriculture Associated with with Language Families South of the Sahara and West of Ethiopia

Source:   Newman, James L. 1995. The Peopling of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press. 56.
Date Digitized:   2009

Map Description:
Since developments correspond with the distribution of the Late Stone Age aquatic tradition, Newman says we are able to assume that the early Nilosaharan agricultural communities were scattered in a bandlike pattern immediately south of the desert.

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