Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change

BACKGROUND: Approximately two hundred human burials were discovered on the edge of a paleolake in Niger that provide a uniquely preserved record of human occupation in the Sahara during the Holocene ( approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present). Called Gobero, this suite of closely spaced sites chroni... View More