In National Geographic’s Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara, Peter Gwein discusses how paleontologists led by Paul Sereno discovered ancient fossils of human civilization. The article discusses how climate change effected the cultures in the Green Sahara. The Tenerian and Kiffian were discovered in Gobero one of the largest burial grounds where there was once a Green Sahara (Gwin, 2008). This paper will review the article as well as postulate the role of climate emergence in the Nile Valley.
There was a paleontologist looking for dinosaur fossils and they discovered ancient humans instead. They found a burial ground. There appeared be a “tight bundle of bones squeezed into a basket that had long since decomposed” and showed that there were two groups the Tenerian and Kiffian (Gwin, 2008). The skeletal remains varied in size, age and accompanied some interesting finds. They give detail about what was once in the lush area. The skeletons range from five and a half feet tall to six feet eight inches tall including Nile perch, hippo and harpoons buried along with the remains (Gwin, 2008). The fossils that were discovered indicated remnants of a lake. The climate changed and the remnants of the change are left behind as artifacts. …show more content…
The people that inhabited the lush land and lake were they from the fertile Nile Valley or did they move to the Nile Valley? There were two civilizations Kiffians settled the area first and relied on hunting opposed to the later Tenerian were herders to the remnants of cattle (Gwin, 2008). An apocalypse of sorts seems to have come for them. The lake was a source of life. The Nile Valley is a source of life and created one of the most advanced civilizations in the world, the Egyptians without the Nile they would have not existed (Canadian Museum of History, 2016). Both civilizations in the Green Sahara ended due to climate
There was a paleontologist looking for dinosaur fossils and they discovered ancient humans instead. They found a burial ground. There appeared be a “tight bundle of bones squeezed into a basket that had long since decomposed” and showed that there were two groups the Tenerian and Kiffian (Gwin, 2008). The skeletal remains varied in size, age and accompanied some interesting finds. They give detail about what was once in the lush area. The skeletons range from five and a half feet tall to six feet eight inches tall including Nile perch, hippo and harpoons buried along with the remains (Gwin, 2008). The fossils that were discovered indicated remnants of a lake. The climate changed and the remnants of the change are left behind as artifacts. …show more content…
The people that inhabited the lush land and lake were they from the fertile Nile Valley or did they move to the Nile Valley? There were two civilizations Kiffians settled the area first and relied on hunting opposed to the later Tenerian were herders to the remnants of cattle (Gwin, 2008). An apocalypse of sorts seems to have come for them. The lake was a source of life. The Nile Valley is a source of life and created one of the most advanced civilizations in the world, the Egyptians without the Nile they would have not existed (Canadian Museum of History, 2016). Both civilizations in the Green Sahara ended due to climate