12 June 2010

Chronology of Amaziɣ History part I: Pre- and Protohistory

Azul akkʷ,

Of all crimes against humanity, it is perhaps most vicious to falsify history; one of the main components to founding a civilization, a key factor in building self-esteem, pride and legacy. Denying it, is denying a people's obligate right to know.

Based on a variety of resources, but primarily on the book "
Le Guide de la culture Berbère" by Dr. Mohand Akli HADDADOU, (a professor in the department of Amaziɣ language and culture at the University of Tizi Ouzou, -PhD in Amaziɣ linguistics-), I will post a somewhat of a rough chronology of the Amaziɣ history divided up into 13 parts.
(This is of course, what is NOT taught in north African schools) Your feedback is more than welcome =)

Prehistory and Protohistory:
The tree of world populations shows the relationship between languages and genetic
groups.
There is NO immediate common ancestor between Imaziɣen and any of the
circled groups in green and yellow. A more primitive immediate common ancestor (blue dot)
exists between Imaziɣen and the Laps (also known as the Sami people)


10,000 B.C.: Development of the Ibero-Maurusian civilization in North Africa.
Ibero-Maurusian civilization in green

7000-5000 B.C.
: Caspsian Culture: Emergence of the Proto-Mediterraneans, Ancestors of the Berbers.


Caspsian Culture

6000-2000 B.C.: Neolithic civilization in North Africa and the Sahara.
Neolithic tools from Aouker

Engravings in Akakus, Libya

3300 B.C.: Reference on Egyptian documents to the battle between the Pharaoh's Army and the Libyans (Tehenou).
Chefs Temehou drawn by Egyptians of the New Empire

Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
(c. 484-425 BCE)

[4.183] Ten days' journey from Augila there is
again a salt-hill and a spring; palms of the
fruitful kind grow here abundantly, as they do also
at the other salt-
hills.
This region is inhabited by a nation called the
Garamantians, a very powerful people, who cover
the salt with mould, and then sow their crops. [...]
In the Garamantian country are found the oxen
which, as they graze, walk backwards. [...] The
Garamantians have four-horse chariots, in which they chase
the
Troglodyte Ethiopians, who of all the nations
whereof any account has reached our ears are by
far the swiftest of foot.


Early 13th century B.C.
: Ramesses II enlists Libyans to fight the Hittites.


Circa 1189 B.C.
: Ramesses II installs Libyans near Memphis: Libyan Domination to the average of Egyptians.

1000 B.C.: Phoenician settlement on the coasts of North Africa.

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