•The earliest
occupation of what is now North-Central Nigeria must have been that of Pleistocene foragers, and the only trace of these is the Jalaa
•Nilo-Saharan
speakers, probably fishing people, to judge by their harpoon points, expanded across the ‘green Sahara’ ca. 10-8000 years ago in pursuit of fish and other aquatic fauna
•Possibly cooking ‘fish soup’ in their newly acquired pottery