Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara 305
iminplaya sends along a New Scientist article that begins: "One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyard from the era reveals. The archaeological site in Niger [is] called Gobero... It had been used as a burial site by two very different populations during the millennia when the Sahara was lush... 'The first people who used the Gobero cemetery were Kiffian, hunter-gatherers who grew up to two meters tall,' says Elena Garcea of the University of Cassino in Italy and one of the scientists on the team. The large stature of the Kiffian suggests that food was plentiful during their time in Gobero, 10,000 to 8,000 years ago... All traces of the Kiffian vanish abruptly around 8,000 years ago, when the Sahara became very dry for a thousand years. When the rains returned, a different population, the Tenerians, who were of a shorter and more gracile build, based themselves at this site... 'The most amazing find so far is a grave with a female and two children hugging each other. They were carefully arranged in this position. This strongly indicated they had spiritual beliefs and cared for their dead,' says Garcea." The research article is at PLoS One.
Global Warming (Score:2, Funny)
Were their shamans just as convincing arguing for less water use and building smaller huts to prevent the climate-changes?
This what happened. (Score:5, Funny)
Were their shamans just as convincing arguing for less water use and building smaller huts to prevent the climate-changes?
No, but their chief, Chief Bush, was totally responsible for suppressing the data from the bones and tea leaves that it was happening. Then Chief Bush, along with the paleo-cons started bogus wars with tribes in Mesopotamia and with the Persians in order to promote chiefocracy. But the people eventually saw through the paleo-con lie that it was and realized that it was just a war to secure grain supplies.
In the meantime, a former chief, Gor, showed the populous cave paintings that would show what would happen if they didn't change their wasteful ways.
Really, that's the way it happened.
Re:Global Warming (Score:4, Funny)
I've corrected your grammar.
Re:Water = civilization (Score:3, Funny)
I was on a beach in Togo last week and every day the ocean washes up plastic bags.
They're probably the same plastic bags you threw out ten years ago. Please pick up your trash.
Re:plug for paul sereno (Score:4, Funny)
Modern day Indiana Jones, if there ever was one... His dinosaur laboratory is located across the street from the site of Chicago Pile 1, where the first controlled release of atomic energy occurred
So did he survive the atomic blast in a refrigerator?
two meters ?!? (Score:2, Funny)
ASSISTANCE FOR HELP AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU (Score:1, Funny)
NO 65 SANDY STREET,
GOBERO
SHORES OF NIGER
SIR/MADAM,
GREETINGS FROM ME TO YOU.I KNOW YOU DON'T KNOW ME. BUT PLEASE CAN YOU BE OF ASSITANCES TO ME. I GOT YOU CONTACT ADRRESS FROM THE SLASHDOT TO SEE IF YOU CAN HELP ME TO TRANSFER OUR FAMILY MONEY TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY.
10,000 TO 8,000 YEARS AGO, MY FAMILY ERECTED A LARGE STATUE OF THE KIFFIAN IN A TIME THAT FOOD WAS PLENTIFULL. THE KIFFIAN WAS UP TO TWO METERS TALL AND WOULD NOW BE WORTH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF DISCOVERED.
MY FAMILY, WHO ERECTED THE KIFFIAN, ALL TRACES OF THE KIFFIAN AND MY FAMILY VANISH ABRUPTLY! IT WAS TAKEN BY AWFULL TENERIANS, WHO ARE A SHORTER AND MORE GRACILE. THEY RUINED OUR KIFFIAN AND MAKE SAHARA BECAME VERY DRY FOR THOUSAND YEARS OR MILLENIUM.
NOW THE RAINS RETURNED, AND WASH AWAY SKULLS OF TENERIANS, TO REVEAL GREAT KIFFIAN. WHICH IS IN POSSESSION OF MY FAMILY.
SIR, IAM HONOURABLY SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS.
1) TO CLAIM THE RIGHTS OF KIFFIAN IN THE COURTS
2) TO PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WOULD BE TRANSFERED FROM WINING AND SELLING THE KIFFIAN
2) TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIANS OF THIS FUND.
3) TO MAKE ARAINGEMENT FOR ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY AND TO PLACE THE KIFFIAN STATURE INTO YOUR CAPITAL AS A SIGN OF GOOD FRIEND BETWEEN MY COUNTRY
MY FAMILY IN WILL BE IN VERY THANKFULLY TO YOU. MY GRAND-GRAND-GRAND-MOTHER AND HER ONLY TWO CHILDREN HUGGING EACH OTHER IN THEIR GRAVE, THEY WILL THANK YOU. CAREFULLY ARRANGED POSITIONS TO JUSTIFY THEIR VERY LARGE SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND CARES FOR THE DEAD AND ETERNAL LIFE OF THE STATURE KIFFIAN. THE KIFFIAN IS OUR INHERITANCE AND CAN BE WORTH TO YOU A LOT IF YOU HELP ME.
FURTHERMORE, YOU CAN INDICATE YOUR OPTION TOWARDS ASSISTING ME WITHIN SEVEN (7) DAYS YOU SIGNIFY INTEREST TO ASSIST ME.
MY iPHONE NUMBER IS BELOW. PLEASE BE VERY SECRET.
SINCERLY,
GARCEA BIN KIFFIA
PS I HAVE LINK-IN PROFILE AND FACESBOOK TOO
Re:Water = civilization (Score:1, Funny)
so says sid meier
Re:not too surprising (Score:2, Funny)
By the way this shows that Christianism is the major force behind the Global Warming.
Old lumberjack joke (Score:5, Funny)
Seems to belong here:
One day a little guy wandered into the camp looking for a job as a lumberjack. The head lumberjack looked at him doubtfully, but asked him to cut down a small tree. Zip. The tree was down. Kind of surprised, the head lumberjack told him to cut down a large tree. Zip. One swing, and the tree fell.
"Where did you learn to cut trees like that?"
"In the Sahara Forest."
"What do you mean? The Sahara is a desert!"
"That was afterwards."