User:RekishinoJinrui/sandbox

This is my sandbox. I'm sure I will use it often in order to make my contributions the best they can be.

My work in progress, extremely rough summary/outline of what I will be doing for the Gobero Page

I am planning on dividing up the page into a few different sections, the first being basic site information. It will include information such as where it's located (generally), the size, current environment of the site now, the people who have worked at the site including the man who found it Paul Sereno. Time frame for the site will also be included, as well as what the environment of the gobero site was like while it was occupied. Most of this information will be coming from Sereno et al. (2008) article. I would also be siting Elena A.A Garcea's 2013 The No Return Frontier. (still waiting for it to come in at the library)

The Second Section, which would be breaking up the current Archaeology section, would be Human Occupation at the site, talking about the two different groups of people that lived there, the Kiffians and the Tenerians, perhapse giving a bit more of a detailed background on the two groups and talk about which burials related to which group. Maybe add in what the environment was like for both of these groups separately while they occupied the area.The next subsection would be for the burials themselves, how many, how they were buried, things found with the burials, maybe how they were excavated? A few sources I would be using would be

The final section would be on artifacts found, for example bone harpoons and wavy line pottery, and what this can tell us about the cultures themselves in terms of lifestyle. I might also throw in a further research section or maybe a more work needs be done thing?

One thing I have question s on though, am I allowed to use the same sources mentioned on the gobero page, or do I have to find and use completely new ones?RekishinoJinrui (talk) 17:49, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * You will definitely have to use the two sources mentioned under "Further Reading" - really you should use all of the academic sources out there that talk about the site. Hope that helps! Ninafundisha (talk) 17:17, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Too much of a wimp to post this stuff on the main page yet, I'd rather it get proof read by people before going public so I'll just put it on here for now as it get's done. Still a work in progress. Souce information will be added to the main page as well.

About the Site
The site of Gobero is located in the Southern Sahara desert in Niger, near the western tip of the Tenere desert (Seno et al. 2008:2). The area was once the location of a paleolake named Gobero, filled with around 3m or so of freshwater and 3km in depth (Sereno et al. 2008:2). There are 8 sites that make up Gobero, five of which (G1, G2, G3, G5, and G8) have funerary and habitation remains (Garcea 2013). The time frame of the site has been divided into four phases: Phase I dates from around 14,000-7700 B.C.E and is characterized by weakening monsoons and the aridification of the area creating the earliest paliodunes at the site, Phase II dates from 7700-6200 B.C.E and is characterized by a wet climate and the first evidence of occupation by a fisher-gatherer group known as the Kiffians (Sereno et al., 2008). The next phase is an interruption in the occupation of the site from 6200B.C.E – 5200 B.C.E due to the return of dry and aired conditions making the site uninhabitable (Sereno et al., 2008). Phase III dates from 5200BCE to 2200BCE, and is characterized by the second main occupation of the site at Gobero by a group known as the Tenerians (Sereno et al., 2008). The final Phase, Phase IV dates from 2500BCE to 300 BCE and is the period in which the Sahara dries out once more, ending any occupation (Sereno et al., 2008).

Human Occupation at Gobero
The Early Holocene occupation, associated with the Kiffians, dates from 9500 to 8200 cal BP and a Middle Holocene occupation, associated with the Tenerians, dates from 6500 to 4500 cal BP (Stanjanski Carver, Miller 2013). =Kiffian Occupation= A study of the bones showed them to be tall in stature, an average of 2 meters in height for both males and females, and “their crania were long and low and are characterized by a distinct occipital bun, flattened sagittal profile, pentagonal posterior outline, broad proportions across the zygoma and interorbital region, broad nasal aperture, and negligible alveolar prognathism” (sereno et al., 2008: 2). A radiogenic strontium isotopic analysis done on the burials at the G3 area (as wells as some in G1?) of the site show limited variability in the mobility of the group, people stayed and lived in the area for most of their lives, and it was only towards the end of this occupation when the area started to dry out that evidence indicating possible mobility started appearing (Stojanowski & Knudson 2013).