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In her book, Geoarchaeology of Farafra and the Orgin of Agriculture in the Sahara and the Nile Valley, Barbara E. Barich seems to believe that 10,000 years ago during the early Holocene the region experienced violent rain storms and that "Epipaleolithic groups moved along a rather extended circuit, connecting the various oases of the Western Desert with excursions toward the Saharan plains". Recent archaeological missions to the Oasis by the University of Rome have unearthed a large number of sites evidencing a relatively dense population in the Wadi Obeiyd (Ain Dalla) area during the mid to late Holocene period (7000-5000 BC). The people there kept sheep, goats, probably cattle, and perhaps ostriches. They built houses with stone foundations and hearths, and they were starting to cultivate the sorghum and millet that grew wild along the lake. These rudiments of agriculture put them well ahead of people then living in the Nile Valley.
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