Even some of the city/village dweller stuff is plainly native like cambuulo, canjeero and so forth. They all developed from the agricultural package our ancient ancestors got from the Ethiopian Highlands well over a thousand years ago by the looks of it:
Clarke Brooke, The Durra Complex in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia, Economic Botany, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1958), pp. 192-204
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Somalis might get all nationalistic on me but lets be real, we are pretty much just an extension of
Ethiopian/
Horner culture. The elements of our cuisine that developed from theirs or developed from crops we got from the highlands are pretty much part of our native regional culture.
It’s obvious we are from the same stock of people but to say we are an extension of them is too much. We’ve become different people and our histories has shaped us. They are who they are and we are who we are.
Btw, what do you think about that archaeological report showing signs of Christianity and Judaism present in Somali inhabited regions? Have you come across it?
It’s crazy how much history there is left to unearth in Somalia. Between this and the ancient Roman, Egyptian, Indian, and Chinese artifacts that are continuously discovered—I can’t wrap my head around how our homeland is critically lacking in thorough research. We might have the last frontier to explore in Africa.
This paper presents the results of some of the surveys conducted to map archaeological sites of Somaliland and includes almost 100 new and previously unpublished sites. The survey work was conducted by several of Somaliland’s Department of Archaeology staff, including Mohamed Ali Abdi, a...
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> A grave marked with a stele carrying an Orthodox cross was found
in situ at Aw-Barkhadle, which confirms that Christianity was known here during pre-Islamic times or contemporary with Islam.
>Also, gravestones marked with a Star of David are found around Dhubato (27) village in Hargeysa region.
>The heritage, if studied and recorded properly, can help people gain insights into their own past, understand the different groups who make up Somali society who lived syncretically in the past, and perhaps better understand their present.
Do you have any more information that can provide us with more insight? The only conclusion I can make from this is our ancestors tolerated differences in religions and the spread of Islam must have been rather slow. Would you agree?