User:Makgadikgadi

Topics of Interest

 * Mfecane
 * Mzilikazi
 * The Liebenberg Trek
 * Colesberg (gateway of trek-fever)
 * Martha Johanna Elizabeth Liebenberg
 * Justice Robert Percival Plewman
 * Rapid speciation of cichlid fishes in Lake Makgadikgadi
 * Origins of modern Homo sapiens in southern Africa ~200k

Draft Articles for Creation

 * The Vaal River Massacre

Derivation of Username
The Makgadikgadi Pan /məˈkædiˈkædi/ ( Tswana pronunciation [makχʰadiˈkχʰaːdi][needs tone]), a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up tens of thousands of years ago. Recent studies of human mitochondrial DNA suggest that modern Homo sapiens first began to evolve in this region some 200,000 years ago, when it was a vast, exceptionally fertile area of lakes, rivers, marshes, woodlands and grasslands especially favorable for habitation by evolving hominins and other mammals.