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Posted: August 14, 2008 |
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A paleontologist looking for dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert instead stumbled across the largest Stone Age graveyard ever found. The human skeletons, tools and other remains were left by two groups of people, the Kiffians and the Tenerians, who lived in the area between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, when the Sahara was a swampy wetland.
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| Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, stabilizes the skull of a Tenerian woman during excavation of the site. The Tenerians lived in the area about 7,500 to 4,000 years ago. They buried their dead in the same spot as another group, the Kiffian people, who had lived there earlier -- between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago. |
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| Photo Credit: National Geographic Society |
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