# Leaf waxes off the western Sahara put the Green Sahara at about 11,000 to 5000 years ago, with a likely abrupt end

> Leaf-wax records from marine cores off the western Sahara show the Green Sahara from about 11,000 to 5000 years ago, with rain reaching as far north as…

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# Leaf waxes off the western Sahara put the Green Sahara at about 11,000 to 5000 years ago, with a likely abrupt end

Leaf-wax records from marine cores off the western Sahara show the Green Sahara from about 11,000 to 5000 years ago, with rain reaching as far north as 31°N; it probably ended abruptly, and a drier pause about 8000 years ago coincides with a temporary abandonment of Neolithic sites.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[Wet but not a ringed lake: streams and small lakes in the African Humid Period, about 14,800 to 5,500 years ago](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9GQMCS19/wet-but-not-a-ringed-lake-streams-and-small-lakes-in-the)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Leaf waxes off the western Sahara put the Green Sahara at about 11,000 to 5000 years ago, with a likely abrupt end [Evidence EVD0DCPAFD077ZY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPAFD077ZY
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