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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...
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    Nabta Playa archaeological site, one of the earliest of the Egyptian Neolithic Period, is dated to circa 7500 BC. Also, excavations from Nabta Playa,...
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    Niger between 4700 BCE and 4200 BCE. Cattle funerary sites developed in Nabta Playa (6450 BP/5400 cal BCE), Adrar Bous (6350 BP), in Chin Tafidet, and in...
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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...
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  • predynastic and ancient Egyptian foreign contacts up through 343 BC. In Nabta Playa by the end of the 6th millennium BC, prehistoric Egyptians had imported...
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    (Barnenez) and Poitou (Bougon). c. 4500 BC: Constructions in south Egypt (Nabta Playa). c. 4300 BC: Constructions in south Spain (Dolmen de Alberite, Cádiz)...
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    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 have...
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    northeast Africa was found in the archaeological sites of Bir Kiseiba and Nabta Playa in what is now southwest Egypt. Domestication of sheep and goats reached...
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    archaeological sites, including Elephantine, an island on the Nile River, Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert, and Kerma in present-day Sudan. This type of artifact...
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    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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  • Fred Wendorf, Romauld Schild, and Angela Close, Bir Kiseiba, along with Nabta Playa, has some of the earliest evidence for food production, permanent settlement...
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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...
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    summer or winter solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are in Nabta Playa, Egypt; Mnajdra, Malta and at Stonehenge, England); Newgrange, a prehistoric...
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  • domesticated plants and animals. It has been suggested that megaliths found at Nabta Playa are examples of the world's first known archaeoastronomical devices,...
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    Egypt, Bashendi-like groups have also inhabited the Farafra Oasis, and Nabta Playa, to the south. The Bashendi used sandstone grinders to grind local wild...
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    Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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    Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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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...
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    ISBN 978-1780231174 – via EBL Reader. "Late Neolithic megalithic structures at Nabta Playa". Archived from the original on 13 February 2008. Retrieved 27 February...
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    precursor to Nubian archer culture in later times. Megaliths discovered at Nabta Playa are early examples of what seems to be one of the world's first astronomical...
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    Washington, U.S. Medicine wheel – Ancient stone circles in North America Nabta Playa – Calendar circle built circa 5000 BC in Egypt Newgrange – Neolithic...
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    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 have...
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    Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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    civilization, could fairly be called a Sudanese transplant." Excavations from Nabta Playa, located in Nubia about 100 km west of Abu Simbel, suggest that the Neolithic...
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  • Dinka. One of the earliest burials of cattle can be found at the site of Nabta Playa, which had inhabitants that were of the same Nilo-Saharan traditions...
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    Nieves (2001). "Site E-92-8: A Late Prehistoric C-Group Component at Nabta Playa". Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara. pp. 529–533. doi:10...
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  • mathematics, alchemy and astronomy within the polities of Egypt, see Nabta Playa. This is simultaneous with cultural diffusions via the Sahara (African...
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    and Luba calendar and Ankole calendar. A stone circle located in the Nabta Playa basin may be one of the world's oldest known archeoastronomical devices...
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    Neolithic (Pottery) Nanzhuangtou (8500–8000 BC) 7000 Egyptian Neolithic Nabta Playa (7500 BC) Çatalhöyük (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras...
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    es-Sufra Musti (Tunisia) Muteci Mutugenna Myos Hormos Nabala, Mauritania Nabta Playa Naqada culture Naqada III Nasbinca Naucratis Naustathmus (Cyrenaica)...
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