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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks! I’m a little scared now...


19 posted on 11/19/2009 4:58:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ten thousand years old human remains, fish hooks, harpoons found in desert:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html

“...Called Gobero, the area is a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from the Kiffian (7700 to 6200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5200 to 2500 B.C.) cultures, says a new study led by Sereno of the University of Chicago.

The “watershed” find also offers a new window into how these tribes lived and buried their dead during the extreme Holocene period, when a grassy Sahara dried up in the world’s largest desert...

See Video.


20 posted on 11/19/2009 5:35:24 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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