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Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 10:12 am**

http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_98364/ ... st-Sahara/

A topic we've gone around with several times resurfaces.

One of the most remarkable conclusions is the verification that today's arid desert was a subtropical savanna with plenty of flora and fauna six thousand years ago. Rains decreased as a consequence of a process of climate change and animals moved to other places to face the lack of water.

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 11:15 am**

And that project 'only' covers the western Sahara!
Have you seen the size of that mother?

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 6:51 pm**

You are only too correct RS.
We are talking a huge area.
If it was that fertile, what will we find when we really look.
BTW, who knew there was either Basque or Sahrawi archaeologists ?

Posted: **Mon May 19, 2008 4:12 pm**

Okay...let's not forget the Eastern Sahara, courtesy of Wendorf and Schild.

http://www.comp-archaeology.org/WendorfSAA98.html

Posted: **Mon May 19, 2008 7:01 pm**

Thanks, Min. That's an interesting write-up. Surprisingly, for a subject like this, no pitchers, diagrams, or maps at all, though.
Charlie's M.O. reversed, as it were.

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Catalogue of Western Sahara Finds

Catalogue of Western Sahara Finds