| by 2000 | Interaction between Saharan occupants and Sub-Saharan West African hunter-gatherers increases as Saharan occupants migrate southward into Sub-Saharan West Africa. | by 2000 wikPWA ' |
| c.2000 | Engraved petroglyphs begin at Burkina Faso. Rock-shelters and barns are utilized by the creators of the petroglyphs. | 2000 wikPWA' |
| c.2000 | HORSE Period of Tassili n'Ajjer rock art begins until 50CE, overlapping the CAMEL Period beginning 1000. Horse Period correspond with the drying of the Sahara and requirement for new travel methods. Arrival of horses, horse-drawn chariots, and riders are depicted, often in mid-gallop, and associated more with hunting than war. Inscriptions of Libyan-Berber script [indecipherable], used by ancestral Berbers, appear next to the images. | 2000 wikTnA ' |
| c.2000 | Due to Saharan dessication, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and giraffes had already vanished, as reflected in Saharan rock drawings. | 2000 mxfld |
| c.2000 | Thiaroye Woman, aka 'Venus of Thiaroye,' may have been the earliest statuette created in Sub-Saharan West Africa, possibly a fertility statuette, created in the region of Senegambia. | 2000 wikPWA |
| c.1962 | SENUSRET, son of Amenhemhet-I, in Libya, learns of father's murder, tells no one. | 1970 BHoE 179 |
| c.1962 | SINUHE, noble under Senusret in Libya, overhears conversation about murder of Amenhemhet-I by tent of Senusret. Fears implication. Flees. | 1970 BHoE 179 |
| c.1800 | THIAROYE village founded on west coast | 1800 wikTry |
| by 1800 | Saharan pastoral culture expands thruout the Saharan and Sahel regions. | by 1800 wikTct |
| c.1500 | LATE PASTORAL Period of Saharan rock art from 2500 ends. | 1500 wikPst |
| c.1500 | GHANA west Africa has domestic cattle and goats, pottery, stone axes, shale arm-rings and fine stone points. | 1500 mxfld |
| c.1500 | HORSES, in Egypt from 1750, taken west to Sahara. | 1500 bk |
| c.1500 | Highlands of Tassili n'Ajjer, a national park on a vast plateau in southeast Algeria, occupied by humans from 5500, no longer show evidence of human occupation. | 1500 wikTnA |
| c.1500 | Seated and crouched chimpanzee statuettes in savannas and forests of West and Central Africa from 2300, ends. | 1500 wikPWA ' |
| c.1400 | KINTAMPO culture in Ghana from 2500 ends. Artifacts include personal adornment items, polished stone beads, bracelets, and figurines; stone tools (e.g. hand axes) and structures (e.g. building foundations). | 1400 wikKC ' |
| c.1200 | BRONZE AGE in Africa from 3300, ends. | 1200 wikBA, ' |
| c.1200 | Rock carvings in Sahara portray CHARIOTS. | 1200 PW 15 |
| c.1150 | South MAURETANIA is in the so-called Naghes phase, showing circular compounds with evidence of cattle and goat herding, fishing and some hunting. People have stone axes, arrowheads, gouges, and pottery. | 12-1100 mxfld |
| c.1100 | UTICA on north coast founded by Phoenicians. | 1101 MWΦ 94, 230 1100 B76 17-944, CWH, WPOT 280, mxfld 8th or 7th cen. B76 X-314 |
| c.1100 | LIXUS on north coast, founded by Phoenicians. | 1100 B76 17-944, CWH, WPOT 280 |
| c.1100 | The SAHARA is not as desolate in the first millennium as it has become. | 1100 SHT 1-706 |
North Africa 1000-500
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