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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...
- The
Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the
earliest of the
Egyptian Neolithic Period, is
dated to
circa 7500 BC. Also,
excavations from
Nabta Playa...
- the
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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megaliths accurately mark the
summer or
winter solstice (for
example in
Nabta Playa, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta; and Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
- Egypt, Bashendi-like
groups have also
inhabited the
Farafra Oasis, and
Nabta Playa, to the south. The
Bashendi used
sandstone grinders to
grind local...
- (Barnenez) and
Poitou (Bougon). c. 4500 BC:
Constructions in
south Egypt (
Nabta Playa). c. 4300 BC:
Constructions in
south Spain (Dolmen de Alberite, Cádiz)...
- on
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...
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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...
- Gautier,
Achilles (2001). "The
Early to Late
Neolithic Archeofaunas from
Nabta and Bir Kiseiba".
Holocene Settlement of the
Egyptian Sahara. pp. 609–635...
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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...
