Gobero
Sign in to saveThe Gobero archaeological site, dating to around 8000 BCE, is the oldest known cemetery in the Sahara Desert. The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment. Gobero is located in the Ténéré desert of Niger, and is named after the Tuareg name for the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture.
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It sits within the topics 2000 archaeological discoveries, Archaeological discoveries in Africa and Archaeological sites in Niger.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Niger
- Continent
- Africa
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Gobero.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Site
- Excavations
- Human occupation
- Kiffian culture
- Tenerian culture
- Burials
- References
- Further reading
The Gobero archaeological site, dating to around 8000 BCE, is the oldest known cemetery in the Sahara Desert. The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment. Gobero is located in the Ténéré desert of Niger, and is named after the Tuareg name for the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture.
==Site== The area was once the location of a freshwater lake named Lake Gobero, around 3 km in diameter and 3 m in depth. There are eight sites that make up Gobero: G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, G7, and G8, five of which (G1, G2, G3, G5, and G8) have funerary and habitation remains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gobero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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