In west-central Africa is the bone-dry Tenere desert of Niger and Chad, so dry that it’s called “the desert of deserts,” where a civilization existed long ago having utilized bone fishhooks, stone adzes and axes, bone harpoons, pottery, and grindstones (for grain), along the shore of Lake Gobero where now is a sea of sand but then was a lake three miles across and ten feet deep on average. The wildlife there included cattle, crocodiles, catfish, clams, turtles, and hippopotamuses, when perhaps forty inches of rain fell per year where now fall just a few. In order to accommodate their timeline, the hapless uniformitarians, knowing that the region dried out circa 1500 b. c., are forced to say that humans lived there for about 15,000 years, trying to rationalize the bronze age culture there with their time for the end of the Ice Age.
