Human remains from this culture were found in 2000 AD at a site known as Gobero, located in Niger in the Ténéré Desert.
[1] The site is known as the largest and earliest burial place of Stone Age people in the Sahara desert.
[3] Based on dental evidence, Joel D. Irish of Liverpool John Moores University suggests sub-Saharan West African affinities for the Kiffians, in turn suggesting that the common ancestors of West African and Proto-Bantu peoples may have originated in the southwestern region of the Sahara amid the Kiffian period at Gobero, and may have migrated southward from the Sahara into various parts of West Africa (e.g., Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo) as a result of desertification of the Green Sahara in 7000 BCE.
[4] Traces of the Kiffian culture do not exist after 6,000 BC, as the Sahara went through a dry period for the next thousand years.
"The Kiffian & Tenerean Occupation Of Gobero, Niger: Perhaps The Largest Collection Of Early-Mid Holocene People In Africa."