•The Nilo-Saharan aquatic resource exploiters were not the only
populations to take advantage of the newly green Sahara
•North African hunters with microlithic arrow-points also observe the
new abundance of large land mammals to the south, notably elephant, rhino and
giraffe
•This contributes to the ‘Epipalaeolithic’ of Northern Mali, Southern
Algeria etc from ca. 10 kya.
•These populations are called ‘Paleoberber’ in the literature, but there
in no evidence they spoke a
language were in any way connected with modern Berber