>> Obviously you did not read past the headline.   
   >>   
   >> The factor in question was the careful use of 'pastoralism' with   
   >> domesticated animals to retard the desert.   
   >   
   >Again, you are comparing the Holocene to the Holocene   
   >and then pretending that there's a difference.   
      
   Smile, then you contend those cultural features were present in the   
   previous cycle?  That is the only way to compare what you suggest.   
      
   >The only way to judge if humans altered the time table   
   >to the formation of the Sahara would be to look to the   
   >previous interglacial and try to measure the speed of   
   >such changes.   
      
   As above, plus the added info where the previous cycle was used to see the   
   expected difference the cultural features might make:   
      
   https://phys.org/news/2018-10-humans-onset-sahara-years.html   
      
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