• The Kiffian culture is a prehistoric industry, or domain, that existed between approximately 8,000 BC and 6,000 BC in the Sahara Desert, during the African...
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  • for the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture. The area was once the location of a freshwater paleolake...
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    Sahara (section Kiffians)
    prehistoric cultures were discovered at the site: the early Holocene Kiffian culture, and the middle Holocene Tenerian culture. The post-Kiffian desiccation...
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  • prehistoric cultures were discovered at the site: the early Holocene Kiffian culture, and the middle Holocene Tenerian culture. The Kiffians were a prehistoric...
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    millennium BCE) Iwo Eleru Rockshelter (11,000 BP) Iwo Eleru Skull Kiffian Culture (8400 BCE) Gobero Ifetedo Rockshelter (9000/7000 BP) Dutsen Kongba...
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    sculptures and paintings have been found in the Issouane Erg from the Kiffian culture. Trans-Saharan mercantile routes passed through the region, The most...
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    Middle, Late and Final Pastoral have been identified while in Niger the Kiffian culture has been related to the beginning of the AHP. Ancient civilizations...
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    Neolithic period about 10,000 years ago, ancient hunters, the early Holocene Kiffian people, created rock engravings and cave paintings that can still be found...
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    peoples may have originated in the western region of the Sahara, amid the Kiffian period at Gobero, and may have migrated southward, from the Sahara into...
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    Holocene Capsians of the North West Africa, as well as the early Holocene Kiffians of the Sahara. Iberomaurusian fossils excavated at the Afalou site were...
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    burials from what is now called the Kiffian (7700 BCE – 6200 BCE) and the Tenerian (5200 BCE – 2500 BCE) cultures. The classic account of the riparian...
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    at Gobero, there were two groups: the Kiffians and the Tenerians. Between 10,000 BP and 8000 BP, the Kiffians hunted (e.g., harpoons) undomesticated...
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    Niger (section Culture)
    Marendet and the Termit Massif. The Kiffian (circa 8000–6000 BC) and later Tenerian (circa 5000–2500 BC) cultures, centred on Adrar Bous and Gobero where...
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    peoples may have originated in the western region of the Sahara, amid the Kiffian period at Gobero, and may have migrated southward, from the Sahara into...
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    may have originated in the western Saharan region of Gobero, during the Kiffian period, and, due to desertification of the Green Sahara in 7000 cal BCE...
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    throughout the African continent, including that of the Kiffians, Egyptians, and Kushites.: 45–47  The Kiffians were responsible for a life-size rock engraving...
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