c. 7000 BCE · Indigenousapproximate
Trinidad kept its mainland animals and became the door to the islands
Joined to South America until the Holocene, it holds species the rest of the Antilles never received.
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7000 to 5000 BCE · Africanspan
A religion crosses a language barrier six thousand years before writing
Divinity moves from Nilo-Saharan speakers to Cushitic and then Omotic communities in the Horn.
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7000 to 3000 BCE · Africanspan
The ledger of ancient exchange runs in Africa's favour
Eleven food crops, the castor plant and the donkey left the continent before 2000 BCE.
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7000 to 3000 BCE · Africanspan
What Eurasia sent back stayed on Africa's edges
Sheep and goats travelled far inland; Levantine wheat never left the coast and the Nile.
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