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Sand dunes in the Sahara, near Merzouga, Morocco.
Domesticated livestock, including cattle, appeared in the Sahara Desert almost 7,000 years ago. The introduction of this cattle-based animal husbandry marked a shift for some groups, who began to subordinate hunting and fishing to nomadic pastoralism.1