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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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| A Green Sahara |
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| Between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, parts of the now-dry Sahara were swampy wetlands. The site of the remains -- the Gobero Preserve in Niger in the southern Sahara -- once stood along a lake shore. Along with human remains, the researchers found skeletons of fish, crocodiles and other animals. |
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| Photo Credit: National Geographic Society |
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