Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside

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Some 4800 years ago this 11-year-old Tenerian girl was buried wearing an upper-arm bracelet carved from the tusk of a hippo discovered by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno and his team. The Tenerian lived and buried their dead ato ...
Some 4800 years ago, this 11-year-old Tenerian girl was buried wearing an upper-arm bracelet carved from the tusk of a hippo, discovered by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno and his team. The Tenerian lived and buried their dead atop dunes near a lake in a region of the Sahara that was once greener that today. Photo: Mike Hettwer, courtesy Project Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, whose team first happened on the site during a dinosaur-hunting expedition.


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