Maps of Nilotic
African Agriculture ca. 3500 BCE (Ehret)
African Agriculture Circa 3500 B.C.E.
Map Creator:
Christopher Ehret
Source: Ehret, Christopher. 2002. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 87.
Date Created: 2002.
Map Description:
This illustrates Ehret's hypothesis regarding the state of agricultural development in Africa circa 3500 B.C.E. The main changes that Ehret points out occur within two particular groups, although all were expanding. As the Cushitic peoples spread west, they began absorbing many former Omotic groups into their societies. Further across the continent, the West African planting agricultural tradition continued spreading to the belt of western rainforest near the Atlantic coast.
Source: Ehret, Christopher. 2002. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 87.
Date Created: 2002.
Map Description:
This illustrates Ehret's hypothesis regarding the state of agricultural development in Africa circa 3500 B.C.E. The main changes that Ehret points out occur within two particular groups, although all were expanding. As the Cushitic peoples spread west, they began absorbing many former Omotic groups into their societies. Further across the continent, the West African planting agricultural tradition continued spreading to the belt of western rainforest near the Atlantic coast.
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African Ethnic Groups (Public Content)
Ethnic Groups of Africa
Source: Africa Ethnic Groups
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
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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.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
Advancement of Food-Producing Economies Accompanying Khoikhoi and Bantu Migrations (Newman)
Bantu Colonization of the Interior Mosiac of Africa (Newman)
Bantu Origins and Dispersals (Newman)
Eastern and Southern Cushites Introduce Food-Producing Economies to the Interior Mosaic (Newman)
Influential Eastern Nilotic Migrations (Newman)
Linguistic Differentiation among Bantu Groups in Southern Africa ca. 1500 (Newman)
Ngoni, Kamba, Arab-Swahili, and Yao Movements, Migrations, and Trade Routes Within the Interior Mosiac (Newman)
Origin and Spread of Agriculture Associated with Language Families South of the Sahara and West of Ethiopia (Newman)
Southern Nilotic Speakers Seeking the Kenyan Highlands (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa 1200-1800 AD (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa 500-1000 AD (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa ca. 1000 BC (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa ca. 1800 AD (Newman)
Rising and Falling Empires in Western Sudan (Newman)
The Arab Advance (Newman)
The Migrations and Emirates of Fulbe (Newman)
The Spread of Cushitic and Omotic (Newman)
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.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
Advancement of Food-Producing Economies Accompanying Khoikhoi and Bantu Migrations (Newman)
Bantu Colonization of the Interior Mosiac of Africa (Newman)
Bantu Origins and Dispersals (Newman)
Eastern and Southern Cushites Introduce Food-Producing Economies to the Interior Mosaic (Newman)
Influential Eastern Nilotic Migrations (Newman)
Linguistic Differentiation among Bantu Groups in Southern Africa ca. 1500 (Newman)
Ngoni, Kamba, Arab-Swahili, and Yao Movements, Migrations, and Trade Routes Within the Interior Mosiac (Newman)
Origin and Spread of Agriculture Associated with Language Families South of the Sahara and West of Ethiopia (Newman)
Southern Nilotic Speakers Seeking the Kenyan Highlands (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa 1200-1800 AD (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa 500-1000 AD (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa ca. 1000 BC (Newman)
Speakers in the Interlacustrine Region of Eastern Africa ca. 1800 AD (Newman)
Rising and Falling Empires in Western Sudan (Newman)
The Arab Advance (Newman)
The Migrations and Emirates of Fulbe (Newman)
The Spread of Cushitic and Omotic (Newman)
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The Later Dispersal of Afroasiatic (Blench)
The Later Dispersal of Afroasiatic
Source: Blench, Roger. 2006. Archeology, Language, and the African Past. Lanham: AltaMira Press. 160.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map illustrates the later locations and migrations of several African language groups, including the Semitic, Bantu, Nilotic, Berber, Afroasiatic and Chadic speakers, as discussed by Roger Blench. Combined with his map entitled "The Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic", it presents a model which explains the distribution of Afroasiatic languages prior to the Arabic expansion beginning in the seventh century. Two of the languages indicated, Guanche and Elamitic, are extinct; Blench notes that the arrow marking the latter's progress is very uncertain.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
The Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic (Blench)
The Inter-Saharan Hypothesis (Blench)
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map illustrates the later locations and migrations of several African language groups, including the Semitic, Bantu, Nilotic, Berber, Afroasiatic and Chadic speakers, as discussed by Roger Blench. Combined with his map entitled "The Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic", it presents a model which explains the distribution of Afroasiatic languages prior to the Arabic expansion beginning in the seventh century. Two of the languages indicated, Guanche and Elamitic, are extinct; Blench notes that the arrow marking the latter's progress is very uncertain.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
The Early Dispersal of Afroasiatic (Blench)
The Inter-Saharan Hypothesis (Blench)
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).