Something like 100,000 years part in linguistic phylogeny. He could not know Gobekli Tepe, the surrounding settlements, the Natufian villages, etc., all going back to 12,000 years BC which is more than 6,000 or 7,000 years before the Egyptian civilization and 9,000 before the invention of the first known writing system in the Middle East, the Sumerian writing system too often identified as the Akkadian cuneiform writing system because the scribes were Akkadian speaking a Semitic language though the language was Sumerian, a synthetic-analytical language, probably post-agglutinative. We cannot of course reproach the author with what he could not know in 1976. It insists on the leading role it played in some periods and it tries to find out in what periods there existed contact between Black Africa and the Americas. It asserted the historical participation of Black Africa as far back as the birth of the Egyptian civilization. BLACK AFRICA’S HISTORY This book was salvational in many ways at the time of its publication.
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