జిబౌటి: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

Djibouti area has been inhabited since the [[Neolithic]]. According to linguists, the first [[Afroasiatic languages|Afroasiatic]]-speaking populations arrived in the region during this period from the family's proposed [[Afroasiatic Urheimat|urheimat]] ("original homeland") in the [[Nile Valley]],<ref>Zarins, Juris (1990), "Early Pastoral Nomadism and the Settlement of Lower Mesopotamia", (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)</ref> or the [[Near East]].<ref>Diamond J, Bellwood P (2003) Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions SCIENCE 300, {{doi|10.1126/science.1078208}}</ref> Other scholars propose that the Afroasiatic family developed in situ in the Horn, with its speakers subsequently dispersing from there.<ref name="Blench143144">{{cite book|last1=Blench|first1=R.|title=Archaeology, Language, and the African Past|date=2006|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=978-0759104662|pages=143–144|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=esFy3Po57A8C|accessdate=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914171419/http://www.google.com/books?id=esFy3Po57A8C#|archive-date=14 September 2014|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>▼

Pottery predating the mid-2nd millennium has been found at [[Asa Koma]], an inland lake area on the Gobaad Plain. The site's ware is characterized by punctate and incision geometric designs, which bear a similarity to the Sabir culture phase 1 ceramics from Ma'layba in [[Southern Arabia]].<ref name="Ohvah">{{cite book|last1=Walter Raunig|first1=Steffen Wenig|title=Afrikas Horn|date=2005|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3447051750|page=439|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=JpNY7VPn1WUC|accessdate=7 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914164620/http://www.google.com/books?id=JpNY7VPn1WUC#|archive-date=14 September 2014|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Long-horned humpless cattle bones have likewise been discovered at Asa Koma, suggesting that domesticated cattle were present by around 3,500 years ago.<ref name="Connah">{{cite book|last1=Connah|first1=Graham|title=Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology|date=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1134403035|page=46|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=ggD1wdQxBOcC|accessdate=7 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914164726/http://www.google.com/books?id=ggD1wdQxBOcC#|archive-date=14 September 2014|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Rock art of what appear to be antelopes and a giraffe are also found at [[Dorra]] and [[Balho]].<ref name="Amvjaa">{{cite book|last1=Universität Frankfurt am Main|title=Journal of African Archaeology, Volumes 1–2|date=2003|publisher=Africa Manga Verlag|page=230|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=ExwkAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=7 September 2014|isbn=9783937248004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914164618/http://www.google.com/books?id=ExwkAQAAIAAJ#|archive-date=14 September 2014|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref> [[Handoga]], dated to the fourth millennium BP, has in turn yielded obsidian microliths and plain ceramics used by early nomadic pastoralists with domesticated cattle.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Finneran|first1=Niall|title=The Archaeology of Ethiopia|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=1136755527|isbn=978-1136755521|page=86|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=MNGIzz1VJH0C|accessdate=29 December 2016}}</ref>▼