US scientists find biggest stone age burial ground in Niger

Comments | AFP, August, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US archaeologists have discovered the largest known burial ground of the Stone Age in the Sahara desert, in Niger, that besides human remains has also yielded fossils of huge crocodiles and dinosaurs, National Geographic magazine said.

Named Gobero, the archaeological site is an estimated 10,000 years old and located in Niger's part of the Sahara desert called Tenere, or "deserts of deserts" in the Tuareg nomads' language.

It was stumbled upon by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno as he searched the area for dinosaur fossils with his team.

So far, the desert sands have given up several fossil treasures including the complete skeleton of Sarcosuchus imperator, one of the biggest crocodiles that ever roamed the earth some 110...