The Emergence of social complexity in the southern Chad Basin towards 500 BC: Archaeological and other evidence
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Even today the remarkable culture of the Kotoko city-states, located south of Lake Chad, impresses visitors. According to oral traditions collected by anthropologists, the founders of the city-states were the Sao from whom the Kotoko claim to descend.1 Archaeologists discovered that the beginning of settlement in the southern Chad Basin was linked to Mega Chad’s desiccation and dated this retreat to the early first millennium BC.2 Yet, the question of the emergence of the Sao urban culture as such and hence of social complexity remained until recently largely unsolved.
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