Posted on 09/12/2013 7:21:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"Previous spatial analysis of the regional topography has shown there are major watersheds that are dry today but which would drain north from these [the Ahaggar and Tibesti ranges in the south] mountains towards the Mediterranean," says Coulthard, et. al. "Satellite imagery reveals traces of major river channels linked to these watersheds, now partially buried under sand dune deposits." It "provides the first strong quantitative evidence for the presence of three major river systems flowing across the Sahara during MIS 5e [Marine Isotope Stage 5e, or 130,000 years ago]".*
"Whilst we cannot state for certain that humans migrated alongside these rivers, the shape of the drainage systems indicate that anyone moving from south to north from a 2,000 km wide region in the mountains would be funnelled into three clear routes," the researchers continue.*
Those south-to-north river systems are the "Sahabi" and "Kufrah" in the east towards Egypt and the Levant, and the "Irharhar" much farther to the west. They note that, despite the western-most location, the Irharhar river corridor could have been the most suitable corridor for dispersal of humans beyond the Sahara during this time, as the Irharhar connects two comparatively more humid climates, the monsoonal Ahaggar and Tibesti region to a North Western Mediterranean zone that received significant rainfall in the winter. They further support this by pointing to the greater abundance of archaeological evidence found in this area dated to the time range...
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
The garden of eden.
Proof of ancient “climate change”.
Fish Swam the Sahara, Bolstering Out of Africa Theory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2648987/posts
Graves Found From Sahara’s Green Period
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2062227/posts
Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1670680/posts
African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields, Civilization Shifts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/771518/posts
Strange Ancient Crocodiles Swam the Sahara
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2390087/posts
It would have been nice if they’d had some maps of what they were talking about.
Well there is a valley of whales in Egypt.
The African Source Of The Amazon’s Fertilizer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1740969/posts
Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2338320/posts
Old fish, new fish, red fish, blue fish cichlid fish appear to be splitting into two species
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2095454/posts?page=25#25
Weird that there’s also a Valley of Egypt in Wales! ;’)
“Proof of ancient “climate change”.”
Must have been the fault of those SUV’s they were driving then, and the coal power plants.
Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1669466/posts
Slow death of Africa’s Lake Chad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1616118/posts
Ancient lakes of the Sahara
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1562135/posts
https://www.google.com/search?q=herodotus%20lake%20tritonis%20site%3Afreerepublic.com
“Whilst we cannot state for certain that humans migrated alongside these rivers,” so why even waste our time, your time? This is pure hypothetical conjecture –aka—junk science.
The Great Rift and the Jordan
http://www.varchive.org/itb/rift.htm
The Mediterranean Was A Desert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1041705/posts
No, it’s not. What a ridiculous thing to say.
I bought the river rafting concessions. Might take a while to pay off, but it’s the wise man who plans ahead.
That desert needs to have a mountain range put right in the middle of it. That would cause rain/snow to form in the middle of the continent, and rivers can green up the whole desert.
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