To the south, in what is now…

To the south, in what is now the Sahara Desert, nomadic hunters and herders roam a vast, well-watered savanna that abounds in game and provides pastures for their stock.

Their culture flourishes until the region begins to desiccate after 2000 BCE.

Scattering before the encroaching desert and invading horsemen, the savanna people migrate into the Sudan or are absorbed by the Berbers.