9000 BCE onward · Africanspan

One Spirit Force in the sky, with named spirits as its faces

Anthropologists call it Divinity, and Nilo-Saharan speakers have held the idea for nine thousand years.

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8500 to 8000 BCE · Africanspan

Africa invented pottery a second time, three thousand kilometres east of Mali

Nilo-Saharan potters of the eastern Sahara made the fourth oldest ceramics known, spreading east to west.

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