- rock gongs - used to communicate across the valleys, also for music (5000 BC)
- drawings of cattle on rocks (rock art, 5000 or 6000 BC), lions, elephants, giraffes
- used to be green, fertile, resourceful land
- making pottery long before planting crops, long before egypt
- pottery completely hand made, use of goat dung in the mix
- writing never developed in kerma, nubia
- like egyptians, they may have had people buried with king to act as servants in the afterlife
- wealth measured in cattle
- cobra, symbol of kingship
- developed earliest iron industry in africa
- getting water for animals laborious process, pull up water from wells
- cattle headdresses
- dancing boots that jingle
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