Climate, Ecology and Human Movement in the Sahara and Sahel

From the ancient Green Sahara to the droughts of the twentieth-century Sahel, this volume tracks how a transforming climate shaped where people lived, herded, buried their dead, and moved across West Africa, through space and over periods. Palaeoclimate, ancient DNA, archaeology, rock art, and drought records read against one another across deep time.

11,000 years of Saharan and Sahelian climate, ecology and human movement -- in structured tables.