Halfan culture

Halfan culture

The Halfan Industry, or rather, the Halfan people, of Egypt and Nubia for it was much more than just a way of making tools, flourished between 18,000 and 15,000 BC in Nubia and Egypt (though one site has been found dating to before 24,000 BC). They lived on a diet of large herd animals and the Khormusan tradition of fishing. Although there are only a few Halfan sites and they are small in size, there is a greater concentration of artifacts, indicating that this was not a people bound to seasonal wandering, but one that had settled, at least for a time [Upper Paleolithic 30,000-10,000 [http://www.touregypt.net/ebph3.htm] ] .

The Halfan is seen as the parent culture of the Ibero-Maurusian industry which spread across the Sahara and into Spain. Sometimes seen as a proto-Afro-Asiatic culture, this goup is derived from the Nile River valley culture known as Halfan, dating to about 17,000 BC. The Halfan culture was derived in turn from the Khormusan [Midant-Reynes, Beatrix (2000) "The Prehistory of Egypt: From the First Egyptians to the First Pharohs" (Wiley-Blackwell)] , which depended on specialized hunting, fishing, and collecting techniques for survival. The material remains of this culture are primarily stone tools, flakes, and a multitude of rock paintings. The end of the Khormusan came around 16000 B.C. and was concurrent with the development of other cultures in the region, such as the Halfan and Gemaian ["Early Nubian Culture" [http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects97/laurenzop/nubia2.htm] ]

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