HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -’Domesticating Animals in Africa’: The Current State of Knowledge. By the mid-6th millennium BC, cattle, sheep, and goats were found together across the savannas of what is now the Sahara, and it may be tempting to see these as a ‘package, ‘ perhaps introduced together from Southwest Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first native African grass to be domesticated was pearl millet. Impressions of the grain found in ceramics at Dar Tichitt in Mauritania date to about 1800 B.C., but archaeobotanists are excited about a recent find by Dr.

Detailed explanation-3: -The wild ancestors of African sheep, goats and cattle were all first domesticated in southwestern Asia and cattle perhaps also in northeastern Africa. The origins of the language of the seventeenth century Cape Khoekhoen, proto-Khoe, is also convincingly traced to East Africa by historical linguists.