Archaeological culture · c. 2200–200 BCE

Tichitt tradition

Herders and millet farmers of the escarpments of southeastern Mauritania, at Dhar Tichitt, Dhar Walata, Dhar Néma and Dhar Tagant, when the area was savanna. They built some 500 drystone villages with compounds, granaries and tumuli, and are thought to be ancestors of the Soninke people, whose descendants later lived in the region of the Ghana Empire.

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2200–200 BCE