From hunters to herders : the beginnings of a distinct African path through history

Abstract

Using the example of today's Sudan, the chapter describes the peculiar civilisational developments of the African continent in late prehistory - during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic, or the Early and Middle Holocene - and points to the way in which these developments manifest themselves in the current political and social situation especially in the northern part of the African continent.

Keywords

• Sudan
• Nubia
• prehistory
• Mesolithic
• Neolithic
• civilisational developments
• hunter-gatherers
• pastoralists
• Jebel Sabaloka