Tamanrasset (river)

The earlier course of the Tamanrasset and other river systems in North Africa.

The Tamanrasset was a gigantic former stream believed to have flowed through West Africa 5000 years ago .

It is said to have originated in the southern Atlas Mountains and the Ahaggar plateau, flowed over the area of the Sahara and today's Algeria, and finally flowed into the Atlantic .

Presumably the river also dug the Cap Timiris Canyon off the coast of Mauritania . It had a major impact on early settlers in the region and is believed to have contributed to the great migration after it dried up . The river bed was discovered by a Japanese satellite system.

literature

C. Skonieczny, P. Paillou, A. Bory, G. Bayon, L. Biscara, X. Crosta, F. Eynaud, B. Malaizé, M. Revel, N. Aleman, J. -P. Barusseau, R. Vernet, S. Lopez, F. Grousset: African humid periods triggered the reactivation of a large river system in Western Sahara . In: Nature Communications . 6, No. 1, 2015, ISSN 2041-1723 , p. 8751. bibcode : 2015NatCo ... 6E8751S . doi : 10.1038 / ncomms9751 . PMID 26556052 . PMC 4659928 (free full text).
E. Botkin-Kowacki: Rivers may have once criss-crossed the Sahara, say scientists . Christian Science Monitor. November 12, 2015. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018.
M. Stone: A Vast River Network Once Crisscrossed the Sahara . Gizmodo. November 11, 2015. Archived from the original on November 11, 2015.
SK Johnson: Beneath the Saharan sands, a river valley . Condé Nast. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 11, 2015.
Jaroslav Klokočník, Jan Kostelecký, Václav Cílek, Aleš Bezděk, Ivan Pešek: A support for the existence of paleolakes and paleorivers buried under Saharan sand by means of "gravitational signal" from EIGEN 6C4 . In: Arabian Journal of Geosciences . 10, No. 9, 2017, ISSN 1866-7511 . doi : 10.1007 / s12517-017-2962-8 .
B. Ferreira: There's a Long-Lost 'Paleo-River' Beneath the Sahara Desert Nobody Knew Existed . Vice Media. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Tom J. Coulthard, Jorge A. Ramirez, Nick Barton, Mike Rogerson, Tim Brücher: Were Rivers Flowing across the Sahara During the Last Interglacial? Implications for Human Migration through Africa . In: PLoS ONE . tape 8 , no. 9 , September 11, 2013, ISSN 1932-6203 , p. e74834 , doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0074834 , PMID 24040347 , PMC 3770569 (free full text).
^ ^A ^b S. Krastel, TJJ Hanebuth, AA Antobreh, R. Henrich, C. Holz: CapTimiris Canyon: A newly discovered channel system offshore of Mauritania . In: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union . tape 85 , no. 42 , 2004, ISSN 0096-3941 , p. 417 , doi : 10.1029 / 2004EO420001 .
^ ^A ^b Ancient river network discovered buried under Saharan sand , The Guardian. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 13, 2015.
^ ^A ^b M. M. Lahr: Prehistory and Human Evolution in the Sahara . Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge. 2011. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018.
^ ^A ^b Fleagle, John G .: Out of Africa I: the first hominin colonization of Eurasia . Springer, Dordrecht 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-9036-2 .

[:0-1] Tom J. Coulthard, Jorge A. Ramirez, Nick Barton, Mike Rogerson, Tim Brücher: Were Rivers Flowing across the Sahara During the Last Interglacial? Implications for Human Migration through Africa . In: PLoS ONE . tape 8 , no. 9 , September 11, 2013, ISSN 1932-6203 , p. e74834 , doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0074834 , PMID 24040347 , PMC 3770569 (free full text).

[:1-2] A ^b S. Krastel, TJJ Hanebuth, AA Antobreh, R. Henrich, C. Holz: CapTimiris Canyon: A newly discovered channel system offshore of Mauritania . In: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union . tape 85 , no. 42 , 2004, ISSN 0096-3941 , p. 417 , doi : 10.1029 / 2004EO420001 .

[Guardian-3] A ^b Ancient river network discovered buried under Saharan sand , The Guardian. November 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 13, 2015.

[LCHES-4] A ^b M. M. Lahr: Prehistory and Human Evolution in the Sahara . Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge. 2011. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018.

[:2-5] A ^b Fleagle, John G .: Out of Africa I: the first hominin colonization of Eurasia . Springer, Dordrecht 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-9036-2 .