Tropical forest hunter-gatherers

Tropical forest hunter-gatherers appears on the timeline as a people or culture of West Africa coast and forest (North and West Africa) from c. 3200 to 1000 BCE, a span of more than 2,200 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Foragers of the West African rainforest and its fringes who used stone tools, gathered oil palm nuts and yams, and began making pottery long before farming spread.

See Tropical forest hunter-gatherers on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 3200 to 1000 BCE

Duration

more than 2,200 years

Type

People or culture

Region

West Africa coast and forest, North and West Africa

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Events in North and West Africa during its time

• 3100 BCE Unification of Egypt
• 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza
• 1470 BCE Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt
• 1346 BCE Akhenaten founds Amarna

Neighbours in North and West Africa

• Old Kingdom of Egypt c. 2686 to 2181 BCE
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE
• Kingdom of Kerma c. 2500 to 1500 BCE
• Early Dynastic Egypt c. 3100 to 2686 BCE
• Middle Kingdom of Egypt c. 2055 to 1650 BCE
• Land of Punt c. 2500 to 980 BCE
• Egyptian Nubia (Viceroyalty of Kush) c. 1500 to 1070 BCE
• Third Intermediate Period c. 1069 to 664 BCE
• El-Kurru chiefdom c. 1000 to 785 BCE
• First Intermediate Period c. 2181 to 2055 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• Old Babylonian Empire 1894 to 1595 BCE, Middle East
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE, Middle East
• Akkadian Empire c. 2334 to 2154 BCE, Middle East

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