When did Somalis become nomadic?

[Shamis]

I feel like this is the point in our history when we fucked up. When we started discriminating on the remaining artisan Somalis and when we lost our useful traditions like boat making, fishing, farming etc It's probably how clan wars began as well. Anyone know when we became nomadic?

 

[maestro]

Don't you know Nomadic pastoralism is older than Agriculture? Proto-AfroAsiatic people were Nomads before the ones in the Middle East and West Africa started to develop agriculture and civilization. So we were always Nomads.

Not just Afroasiatic but also IndoEuropean

 

[Nin xun]

I feel like this is the point in our history when we fucked up. When we started discriminating on the remaining artisan Somalis and when we lost our useful traditions like boat making, fishing, farming etc It's probably how clan wars began as well. Anyone know when we became nomadic?

Somalis became nomadic due to the fact the the areas they came from where semi arid and not being able to support agriculture as easily as more fertile areas. They never lost boatmaking though, what are you even talking about? Reasons why clans engaging in other modes of food production other than pastoralism were opressed was because the nomadic pastoralists wanted to increase their own power in somali society.

 

[Grant]

Folks were nomadic even before they became pastoralists. The earliest African milk cultures date to about 7,000 years ago. Cattle were domesticated both in the Sahara and in the Middle East. Sheep came from the Levant at a later date, and goats after that.

http://www.livescience.com/21070-green-sahara-hosted-african-dairy-farms.html

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

Our nomadic culture is why we have the longest coast in Africa, and our land occupied in by Somalis would be the 16th largest country in the world, all while maintaining a very small population.

Nomads (i.e the Mongols, Arabs) conquered much of the world.

With that being said, I hope we (Somalis) are able to transition ourselves from our old nomadic culture into the modern world whilst still holding onto our pastoralist roots.

 

[maestro]

Somalis became nomadic due to the fact the the areas they came from where semi arid and not being able to support agriculture as easily as more fertile areas. They never lost boatmaking though, what are you even talking about? Reasons why clans engaging in other modes of food production other than pastoralism were opressed was because the nomadic pastoralists wanted to increase their own power in somali society.

No we were never into agriculture. We were always Pastoralists going back to our AfroAsiatic roots. When civilization was started was when Agriculture was adopted by some AfroAsiatic people like Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians.

Most AfroAsiatic people like us are still are mostly nomadic.