The grass is always greener on the other side (of the Holocene). What is today a vast and inhospitable home to many people and creatures was, between ten and five thousand years ago, a lush environment replete with lakes, forests, and grasses. We examine the first clues that suggested a Green Sahara to researchers, explore the technologies and societies that lived there, and contemplate what the Sahara’s past might suggest about its future.
Links
Africa’s oldest boat set for exhibit in Nigeria (Africa Times)
First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium BC (Nature)
Climate Change in North Africa: The Past is Not the Future (Climatic Change)