Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo or about 100 kilometers...
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Prehistoric Egypt (section Nabta Playa)
Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC. Also, excavations from Nabta Playa,...
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Architecture of Africa (section Nabta Playa)
Niger between 4700 BCE and 4200 BCE. Cattle funerary sites developed in Nabta Playa (6450 BP/5400 cal BCE), Adrar Bous (6350 BP), in Chin Tafidet, and in...
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Sudan and other pastoral societies in Africa today. Megaliths found at Nabta Playa are overt examples of probably the world's first known archaeoastronomy...
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predynastic and ancient Egyptian foreign contacts up through 343 BC. In Nabta Playa by the end of the 6th millennium BC, prehistoric Egyptians had imported...
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cattle remains near the Nile dated to 9000 BP and cattle remains near Nabta Playa and Bir Kiseiba reliably dated to 7750 BP, domesticated cattle may have...
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(Barnenez) and Poitou (Bougon). c. 4500 BC: Constructions in south Egypt (Nabta Playa). c. 4300 BC: Constructions in south Spain (Dolmen de Alberite, Cádiz)...
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archaeological sites, including Elephantine, an island on the Nile River, Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert, and Kerma in present-day Sudan. This type of artifact...
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Egypt, Bashendi-like groups have also inhabited the Farafra Oasis, and Nabta Playa, to the south. The Bashendi used sandstone grinders to grind local wild...
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northeast Africa was found in the archaeological sites of Bir Kiseiba and Nabta Playa in what is now southwest Egypt. Domestication of sheep and goats reached...
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Predynastic Period. In the 5th millennium BCE, the stone circles at Nabta Playa may have made use of astronomical alignments. By the time the historical...
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domesticated plants and animals. It has been suggested that megaliths found at Nabta Playa are examples of the world's first known archaeoastronomical devices,...
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cattle remains near the Nile dated to 9000 BP and cattle remains near Nabta Playa and Bir Kiseiba reliably dated to 7750 BP, domesticated cattle may have...
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Fred Wendorf, Romauld Schild, and Angela Close, Bir Kiseiba, along with Nabta Playa, has some of the earliest evidence for food production, permanent settlement...
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summer or winter solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are in Nabta Playa, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta and at Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
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Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 622. ISBN 9781461506539. Retrieved...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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precursor to Nubian archer culture in later times. Megaliths discovered at Nabta Playa are early examples of what seems to be one of the world's first astronomical...
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megaliths accurately mark the summer or winter solstice (for example in Nabta Playa, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta; and Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
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Washington, U.S. Medicine wheel – Ancient stone circles in North America Nabta Playa – Calendar circle built circa 5000 BC in Egypt Newgrange – Neolithic...
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Holocene settlement of the Egyptian Sahara. Volume 1, The archaeology of Nabta Playa. Romuald Schild. New York. ISBN 978-1-4615-0653-9. OCLC 885402023.{{cite...
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Nieves (2001). "Site E-92-8: A Late Prehistoric C-Group Component at Nabta Playa". Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara. pp. 529–533. doi:10...
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she mentioned the archeological sites of Stonehenge in England and Nabta Playa in Upper Egypt with their megalithic monuments arranged in a circle,...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 51–53. ISBN 9781461506539. ČOḠĀ...
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Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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