Saharan Lakes?

[SaxonViolence]

I've seen one or two shows on the Educational Channels talking about long ago when the Sahara was still wet.

 

They went through it pretty fast, but apparently there were three very large freshwater lakes evenly distributed along an East-West line and all about the size of, or somewhat larger than Lake Victoria.

 

I also believe that they said that there is some evidence of some fairly large prehistoric cities lying on the shores of the lakes.

 

My Google-Fu isn't the best, and I haven't been able to come up with much additional info.

 

Can anyone point me somewhere?

 

Thanks.

 

 

Saxon Violence

[LaurieAG]

You may be thinking of Lake Tritonis.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tritonis

[sigurdV]

I've seen one or two shows on the Educational Channels talking about long ago when the Sahara was still wet.

 

They went through it pretty fast, but apparently there were three very large freshwater lakes evenly distributed along an East-West line and all about the size of, or somewhat larger than Lake Victoria.

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Thanks.

 

 

Saxon Violence

´´´´´Sorry! Cant be of much assistence. Just pointing out that long ago I predicted there was an earlier culture predating the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures somewhere in the Sahel area. I explained that it probably was there the concept of "god" as the cause of the world originated. I often publish earlier than the discoverers themselves. Just check me out Edited May 18, 2013 by sigurdV

[SaxonViolence]

I went on a Google Safari after posting.

 

{Yes, I did before—but it was a couple years ago—somethings get easier to find online with the passage of time.}

 

There is quite a bit about the "Wet Sahara", "The Green Sahara" and "The Sahara Pump"...

 

But nowhere was there those three beautifully symmetrically placed "African Great Lakes" like I saw on the Learning Channel show.

 

Quite possibly it was an Artist's conception.

 

Sad, I really wanted to set a Phantasy Story on the shores of one of those lakes...

 

Yeah, I know I still can, but I was still jump-starting my creativity.

 

 

Saxon Violence

[Essay]

I went on a Google Safari after posting.

 

{Yes, I did before—but it was a couple years ago—somethings get easier to find online with the passage of time.}

 

There is quite a bit about the "Wet Sahara", "The Green Sahara" and "The Sahara Pump"...

 

But nowhere was there those three beautifully symmetrically placed "African Great Lakes" like I saw on the Learning Channel show.

 

Quite possibly it was an Artist's conception.

 

Sad, I really wanted to set a Phantasy Story on the shores of one of those lakes...

 

Yeah, I know I still can, but I was still jump-starting my creativity.

 

 

Saxon Violence

 

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This "palgrave" link below is a good picture of The Upper Niger Lake, Lake Chad, and The Sudd Lake;

but it's too big to post. This one however, shows 3 lakes in an east-west band labeled "The fishing cultures of Middle Africa."

http://www.palgrave.com/history/shillington/resources/maps/Map2.1.jpg

...it is captioned:

"Africa, 7000 BCE: probable level of lakes and rivers in the last major wet phase"

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see also:

http://www.palgrave.com/history/shillington/resources/maps/Map2.2.jpg

at

http://www.palgrave.com/history/shillington/resources/maps.html

 

See especially:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm

 

...or:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa

 

...or: http://www.tony5m17h.net/nilake.html

 

~?

[SaxonViolence]

Thank you.

 

"Paleolakes" that term leads to Beaucoup stuff.

 

I'm beginning to think that the Science Channels plat a little fast and loose with the facts.

 

The show that I was watching seemed to imply that they were excavating a couple reasonably big stone age metropolises on the southern shores of a couple of those lakes.

 

They need to tell the current crop of Archaeologists. I'm sure that they'd like to be there to write it up...

 

Sigh...

 

 

Saxon Violence

[sigurdV]

Good job there soldier!

[sigurdV]

The show that I was watching seemed to imply that they were excavating a couple reasonably big stone age metropolises on the southern shores of a couple of those lakes.

 

They need to tell the current crop of Archaeologists. I'm sure that they'd like to be there to write it up...

 

Sigh...

 

 

Saxon Violence

This is exciting! The search for the oldest civilisation of them all continues...

We came from Africa so civilisations gets younger the farther away from Africa we get.

Its not certain that the Nile Civilisation was the oldest; the Eufrat and Tigris system has been said to be older ...

But I stick to my geographical argument.

I really would like to know WHERE those eventual city remains are situated!

There we should find the remains of the oldest culture ever!

I cant wait to name it: The Sahelian Civilisation ;)

[SaxonViolence]

Here is a Map that is the closest to what I meant...

 

I mean that you can posit the Three Lakes that I remember seeing on the TV Map centered on some of the green circle clusters.

 

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405

 

 

 

Saxon Violence

Edited August 13, 2013 by SaxonViolence

[Murga]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_Wet_Phase

[SocialistAurora]

In Mauritania right near something referred to as a "salty lake" there are some visible highland stream beds.  They appear to be somewhat large.  In this area you should be able to locate several such old water ways.  Unfortunately, the wind erosion treats the area like a whiteboard.