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You: Sahara Mystery.

So, as written in the first of our series about YOU, we told the history of the first people on the globe. We've known who these people

were for decades, in spite of the many controversial versions to the contrary - throughout history - beginning with our children to the North of us, claiming the fame of First, leaving us with destroyed monuments of our brilliance, power and very existence.

 

What we have learnt, though, is something many have heard from the mouths of their mothers: "Eventually, the dust settles and the truth emerges;" precisely the case thanks to today's truth seekers. These Truth seekers are not bogged down by prejudice or misconceptions, hatred, fear or disillusions, they simply want to know The Truth of our ancestors because they understand this truth is that which exists as fact, related to all of us as human beings.

 

So, we have traced human existence to Africa, before the Exodus, in the Sahara. We know the Sahara was lush rich land, filled with land as well as aquatic animals. We know as the Sahara dried, our people travelled South, North, East and West - remember these began as ONE group of people who separated to move in every direction as their fertile land grew lean. We also know, the fertile, lush Sahara took centuries to dry; it did not become a desert overnight, it took generations for this change to occur...

 

We've learnt that these ancestors of ours, who occupied the Sahara, were hunters, fishermen, farmers, artists with innovative ideas and executions of said ideas. We know now, they built CIVILIZATIONS as opposed to eking out humble (dumb, basic) existences as previously portrayed. In other words, they were as smart as capable and as productive as we are today! We have come to know this based on found evidence buried beneath centuries of earth. Due to such evidence, we now understand, where  artisans and religion practices are integral to society, this speaks to a highly successful community, self sustaining enough to appreciate citizens philosophizing and being mentally creative instead of pulling their weight farming or producing tangible resources.

 

We also know there is now evidence of these communities dating back over 3000 years PRIOR to Egyptian civilization, and we also know that evidence points to writing evolving over 5000 years before then (so, no, "Egyptians" weren't the first).

 

Should you wish to dive deeper into who your ancestors were, research (Google) Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford; Dr. Clyde Winters or even the "Before the Pyramids" exhibit.

 

Now that we are caught up, let us continue.

Stefan Jrioekub, prehistoric archaeologist

specializing in the study of the Sahara, argues that it took longer than (the three hundred years) claimed, for the Sahara to dry

                            - his  transition occurred  from 5000 to 1100 years

ago.

 

                                                     This belief

                                                      speaks to                                                          a                                                            movement to                  the Nile from

the greening 

(then lushly green)

Sahara (due to the

"African Humid

Phase"

- one of the most

thoroughly documented

and well-dated climate

change events in the

geologic record," having to

do with the Earth's gravitational

pull by the moon and larger planets, changing the Earth's orbit - thus regional climate). This  phenomenon, in the end, resulted in an increased occurrence of Monsoons, resulting in fertile land for large game animals and human settlements ... climate buffs should check out www.Nature.com Knowledge Project or Stefan Jrioekub for more very interesting details...

 

Given this timeline, and the reality that this  climate change continued for approximately (100-ish??) generations, we gain the understanding of the activity our ancestors created, propelling our race forward. Imagine the action in the South, in the Sahara, and along the Nile stretching over four thousand miles.

 

The Nile offered the opportunity for people to travel to its tail from Uganda to Ethiopia, flowing through nine countries, touching Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan, as well as Egypt, offering rich soil after annual floods, allowing healthy farming settlements to flourish and grow. Thinking of the richness of this body of water is inspiring - and may offer a vibrant picture of what this scene gave to its people, as well as how it most likely encouraged the journey North - as it drained into the Mediterranean Sea - for those in search of other such life-giving sources... keep in mind this train of thought for our future discussions on travelling Out of Africa...

 

Remember, this migration occurred over multiple centuries... Think about the population in your city, today, and the number of people leaving, coming, returning and how the infrastructure changes to accommodate people's lifestyle... miles of farmland becoming dense suburban dwellings with multiple lanes of highway, for example. These are changes occurring over thirty to fifty years, consider a THOUSAND years of change - two thousand, five! That is what our African ancestors achieved; from repetitive, symmetrical patterns in caves to poetry, art, engineering, mathematics in kingdoms then empires. Remember no matter where they ended up (some returning home many HUNDREDS of generations later - as enemies and or conquerors), they had one origin - as the humans we are, today. That is not to say other people like species did not exist. It is to say, though, WE are the sole survivors.

 

 

 

...Stay present for our third account in our series on Early Humans Who Stayed in African: who they were, how they lived and their mark upon today's civilizations.

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