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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 15 > In the Sahara, Stone Age graves reveal the region’s greener days

In the Sahara, Stone Age graves reveal the region’s greener days

By John Noble Wilford / The Bulletin
August 15, 2008

When Paul Sereno went hunting 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....

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