Saharan cattle pastoralists

Saharan cattle pastoralists appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Sahara and Sahel (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).

Herders who painted cattle on the rocks of the Tassili n'Ajjer and Acacus while the Sahara was still grassland. As it dried after 3500 BCE they moved south toward the Sahel and the Nile.

See Saharan cattle pastoralists on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 3200 to 1000 BCE

Duration

more than 2,200 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Sahara and Sahel, 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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