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The Last Hunter-Gatherers and Their Settlement Systems

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The Prehistory of the Sudan

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Rainfall and temperatures increased at the onset of the Holocene and mosaic zones with water catchments, fish, and game replaced the formerly arid areas of the late Pleistocene (Chap. 1). The climate in the Khartoum area had long wet seasons and a mean annual precipitation around 500 mm at this time (Williams 2019). Sudan’s populations underwent a considerable demographic growth. They continued to practice a hunting-gathering subsistence, but added a number of economic, material, and strategic innovations in their organizational systems with new adaptive patterns.

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Garcea, E.A.A. (2020). The Last Hunter-Gatherers and Their Settlement Systems. In: The Prehistory of the Sudan. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47185-9_3

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