Northern Africa Prehistory: 3M BCE - 3100 BCE 🌍
Explore the early humans of Northern Africa, from hunters and gatherers to innovators over 3 million years ago up to 3100 BCE.

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127.9K views • Jul 7, 2025

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For over two million years, Northern Africa was home to some of the earliest humans on Earth: hunters, gatherers, herders, and innovators who shaped the course of history long before Egypt’s unification.
This documentary explores the full and complete history of the region from 3,000,000 BCE to 3100 BCE. From early Homo erectus at Tighennif to the symbolic Aterian culture, the Green Sahara’s pastoralists, and the rise of Naqada elites along the Nile, this is the lesser told story of the civilizations that came before the pharaohs.
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0:00 Origins: The First Africans
3:21 Becoming Human: The Aterian and Early Symbolic Life
7:03 Hunters of the Late Ice Age, Iberomaurusians
11:41 Green Sahara: The Foragers of the Humid Age
16:31 The First Herders of the Nile
18:44 Kings Before Pharaohs
This video is a part of our series on Northern Africa. You can find each individual one here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfcsMsf9d-O3AGOHzBxeJ7H3
Welcome to our Subregion Documentaries! These standalone full documentaries are meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World and Time Period documentary series, these videos are a perfect next step!
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This documentary explores the full and complete history of the region from 3,000,000 BCE to 3100 BCE. From early Homo erectus at Tighennif to the symbolic Aterian culture, the Green Sahara’s pastoralists, and the rise of Naqada elites along the Nile, this is the lesser told story of the civilizations that came before the pharaohs.
Join to help out the channel and keep the project alive!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFn4wt14ytUbngBJp8SsWKQ/join
0:00 Origins: The First Africans
3:21 Becoming Human: The Aterian and Early Symbolic Life
7:03 Hunters of the Late Ice Age, Iberomaurusians
11:41 Green Sahara: The Foragers of the Humid Age
16:31 The First Herders of the Nile
18:44 Kings Before Pharaohs
This video is a part of our series on Northern Africa. You can find each individual one here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfcsMsf9d-O3AGOHzBxeJ7H3
Welcome to our Subregion Documentaries! These standalone full documentaries are meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World and Time Period documentary series, these videos are a perfect next step!
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Check out the Sections on our Homepage for the series we are working on:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MadeInHistory
Lvl 1: HISTORY OF THE WORLD
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfe7hVpRMyeozS5RHcMVQwcJ
Lvl 2: TIME PERIOD MEGA-DOCUMENTARIES
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfeaFYBIWUy8l2xmlesX7MFh
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Please subscribe to Made In History for more videos! We are always trying to grow!
All images used with CC license.
#AncientHistory #AfricanHistory #HistoryDocumentary
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