[blam]

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[Mike Darancette]

>big>"It was a place you could walk out the door of your hut amid the sand dunes and perhaps see hippos, elephants, giraffes, and crocodiles," he added.

Say what? People don't tend to live among sand dunes.

[stockpirate]

I guess their fishing caused the climate to change and the earth warmed up and the lake dried up.

[SunkenCiv]

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[texas_mrs]

But it was a wetter, greener place at the end of the last Ice Age some 12,000 years ago.

Some artifacts suggest travel and perhaps even distant trade.

Yeah, they were sucessful merchants and their lake dried up. When we gonna learn, people.

[texas_mrs]

But it was a wetter, greener place at the end of the last Ice Age some 12,000 years ago.

Some artifacts suggest travel and perhaps even distant trade.

Yeah, they were sucessful merchants and their lake dried up. When we gonna learn, people.

[Alouette]

But did they find the shipwrecked ironclad with all the Confederate gold?

[ApplegateRanch]

Archaeologists have excavated a trove of Stone Age human skeletons and artifacts on the shores of an ancient lake in the Sahara.

Islamic, or prehistoric?

"It was a place you could walk out the door of your hut amid the sand dunes and perhaps see hippos, elephants, giraffes, and crocodiles," he added.

Must be Islamic stone age (ca 700AD-Present); the sand dunes came after the savannas disappeared.

BTW, I never heard of the sand-elephant or dune-giraffe; are these new species this archaeologist discovered?

[Dustbunny]

What happened to the lake. Why did it dry up?

[Bellflower]

Does anyone have access on the net of the sonar map images of the dry riverbeds etc. that were taken of the Sahara recently?