Graves Found From Sahara’s Green Period

NYT ^ | 08/15/08 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

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Graves Found From Sahara’s Green Period

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

When Paul C. Sereno went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara, his career took a sharp turn from paleontology to archaeology. The expedition found what has proved to be the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people who lived there when the desert was green.

The first traces of pottery, stone tools and human skeletons were discovered eight years ago at a site in the southern Sahara, in Niger. After preliminary research, Dr. Sereno, a University of Chicago scientist who had previously uncovered remains of the dinosaur Nigersaurus there, organized an international team of archaeologists to investigate what had been a lakeside hunting and fishing settlement for the better part of 5,000 years, originating some 10,000 years ago.

In its first comprehensive report, published Thursday, the team described finding about 200 graves belonging to two successive populations. Some burials were accompanied by pottery and ivory ornaments. A girl was buried wearing a bracelet carved from a hippo tusk. A man was seated on the carapace of a turtle.

The most poignant scene was the triple burial of a petite woman lying on her side, facing two young children. The slender arms of the children reached out to the woman in an everlasting embrace. Pollen indicated that flowers had decorated the grave.

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[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[coalman]

wow,,they werent very deep,,seriously though,,I love this kind of stuff.

[wardaddy]

what sorta skulls/bones are they?

Caucazoid?

Negroid?

Hybrid?

[Caipirabob]

This one touched me.

[Bushwacker777]

I was wondering the same thing. Some paintings I have seen depicting this period of history seem to be of light-skinned peoples. Not sure that was due to erosion, the materials they had to paint with or if in fact the original people were white.

The original Egyptians and Libyans were white so it would not surprise me.

[Enchante]

Fascinating..... so 5,000 to 10,000 years ago much of the current “Sahara Desert” was green and wet....... then evil SUVs arrived and ruined everything, AGW set in...... did they find the SUVs?

[Ancient Drive]

Global warming killed them, and there were no SUVs back then... gentle Mother Nature just had a hot flash.

[Adder]

So what’s a Nigersaurus: Barney dressed in hip-hop garb?

[Ancient Drive]

lmao!

[ASA Vet]

This is the kind of thread Blam used to post.

[edcoil]

I recall a history channel special that the erosion on the Sphinx was caused by water, not sand dating it back over 5,000 years earlier then originally thought.

[LZ_Bayonet]

A skinny little man showed up at the camp with his axe. The head lumberjack took one look at the little man and told him to leave.
"Give me a chance to show you what I can do," said the skinny man.
"Okay, see that giant tree over there?" said the lumberjack. "Cut it down."
In five minutes he was back knocking on the door.
I cut the tree down," said the man.
The lumberjack couldn't believe his eyes and said, "Where did you learn to chop down trees like that?"
"The Sahara Forest," replied the puny man.
"You mean the Sahara Desert," said the lumberjack.
The little man said, "Oh sure, that's what they call it now!"

[CurlyDave]

...previously uncovered remains of the dinosaur Nigersaurus there...

Jesse, where are you?

Or is there problem that I should be demanding a whiteasaurus?

[wardaddy]

you say that like something happened to blam(?)

i hope not

[SunkenCiv]

US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara
AFP | Aug 14, 2008 | Jean-Louis Santini
Posted on 08/14/2008 12:40:47 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2061932/posts

Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis
Source: ABC (Australia) | January 30, 2008 - 9:47AM | U/A
Posted on 01/29/2008 9:36:38 PM PST by Fred Nerks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961826/posts

Egypt’s Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed
Science Daily | 2-15-2008 | University of California - Los Angeles
Posted on 02/15/2008 2:27:15 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971126/posts

The Tassili n’Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt?
Journal 3 | 04-05-08 | Phillip Coppens
Posted on 04/05/2008 4:08:59 PM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1997350/posts

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[ASA Vet]

Bill is fine, he just moved on to where his threads are appreciated.

[hdstmf]

They were doomed because they didn’t buy Gore’s carbon credits.

[Ancient Drive]

ahh.. so that’s why there’s lots of coal to burn these days...