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A widely accepted theory is that the Sao were indigenous inhabitants of the Lake Chad basin and that their ultimate origins lie south of the lake. [7] Recent archaeological research indicates that the Sao civilization developed indigenously from earlier cultures in the region (such as the Gajiganna culture, which began at around 1,800 BCE and began to build fortified towns by about 800 BCE ...
The Sao civilization flourished from about the sixth century BC to as late as the 16th century AD in Central Africa. The Sao lived by the Chari River south of Lake Chad in territory that later became part of present-day Cameroon and Chad. They are the earliest people to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon.
The Buduma traditionally claim to be descended from the peoples of the Sao civilization and Kanem-Bornu Empire. [2]The Lake Chad region was integrated into the political realm of the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
The Kotoko people, also called Mser, Moria, Bara and Makari, [citation needed] are a Chadic ethnic group located in northern Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria. [1] The Kotoko population is composed of approximately 90,000 people of which the majority live in Cameroon.
The rise of Kotoko coincided with the decline of the Sao civilisation in northern Cameroon. A king headed the nascent state, which came to assimilate several smaller kingdoms. Among these were Kousséri, Logone-Birni, Makari, and Mara. Kotoko spread to parts of what is today northern Cameroon and Nigeria, and southwestern Chad by the mid-15th ...
Stone ruins of the Castro de Vila Nova de São Pedro. The southwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula is a focus of Megalithism, predating by 1000 years [citation needed] the megalithic region of western France: The erection of dolmens, menhirs and castros developed over a long period of southern and central Portugal.
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According to Churchward, the population of the Naacal civilization was as high as 64 million. Their civilization, which flourished 50,000 years ago, was technologically more advanced than the civilization of Churchward's own time (late 19th to early 20th century), and the ancient civilizations of India , Babylon , Persia , Egypt , and the Mayas ...