Colored black by desert
patina, the fossilized skull of a Neolithic woman
emerges from crusty lake sediments that preserve
a stone age culture, the oldest settled inhabitants
of the Sahara.
There were skeletons everywhere.
By the second day, we had mapped 130 skeletons,
with the likelihood that at least 200 individuals
were buried at the site. These weren’t dinosaur
skeletons. They were human - human skeletons surrounded
by artifacts that recorded daily life over 5,000
years ago.
