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Nabta Playa Neolithic Complex

5500 BC – 4000 BC
CultureAfrica

Organized cattle-herding Neolithic communities around the Nabta Playa basin in Egypt's Nubian Desert, known for planned villages, deep wells, sacrificial cattle burials, and megalithic astronomical alignments.

Continued as a seasonal ceremonial and pastoral center through the Holocene wet phase; regional aridification through the later Holocene eventually ended settlement of the playa, with its cattle-cult traditions proposed (not certain) as an antecedent to Egypt's Hathor cult.

Borders in 5500 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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