Manda Guéli Cave in the Ennedi Mountains, northeastern Chad
Saharan rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing on artwork carved or painted on the natural rocks of the central Sahara desert. The rock art dates from numerous periods starting c. 12,000 years ago, and is significant because it shows the culture of ancient African societies.
The paintings and carvings of the Sahara are endangered, and vulnerable rock art on uncovered rock has already disappeared. Organizations, such as the Trust for African Rock Art,[1] are researching and recording as much information about Saharan rock art as possible, while raising awareness of threats to the art itself.
Tibesti Ennedi Messak Tadrart Sabu-Jaddi Adrar Plateau Gilf Kebir Saharanrockart is a significant area of archaeological study focusing on artwork carved...
Mauritania, and Niger. Between 3200 BP and 1000 BP, various Central Saharanrockart sites from the Horse Period were created depicting charioteers, mostly...
Kel Essuf rockart is the earliest form of engraved anthropomorphic Central Saharanrockart, which was produced prior to 9800 BP, at least as early as...
Pastoral rockart is the most common form of Central Saharanrockart, created in painted and engraved styles depicting pastoralists and bow-wielding hunters...
prehistoric rockart is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type also may be called cave art or parietal art. A global phenomenon, rockart is...
atomic tests were conducted by France in the mountains in the 1960s. Saharanrockart Teffedest Mountains Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980)...
kilometres (62 mi). The area has a particularly rich array of prehistoric rockart. Tadrart is the feminine form of "mountain" in the Berber languages (masculine:...
engraved Central Saharanrockart of the Bubaline Period was created between 10,000 BP and 7500 BP. The engraved Central Saharanrockart of the Kel Essuf...
region which for the author was "the principal centre of the rockart of the pre-Saharan regions." Some belong to the earliest stage of the large-scale...
around Uweinat have many smaller sites. Saharanrockart has been found to resemble the art of Nile valleys. The Saharan area was wetter until mid-Holocene...
Head rockart may have adopted pastoral culture, and others may have not. As a result of increasing aridification of the Green Sahara, Central Saharan hunter-gatherers...
Capsian culture was preceded by the Ibero-Maurusian in North Africa. Saharanrockart, the inscriptions and the paintings that show various design patterns...
upper Mesopotamian areas of the Fertile Crescent. In North Africa, Saharanrockart engravings in what is known as the Bubalus (Large Wild Fauna) period...
populations returned from the interior and coastal highlands in sub-Saharan Africa, with rockart paintings depicting a fertile Sahara and large populations discovered...
patterns are exclusive to female art forms. Between the 5th millennium BCE and the 4th millennium BCE, the Central Saharanrockart depiction of a horned running...
human diversity" (Pegasus Books) Anderson, Helen (2016) "Chariots in SaharanRockArt: an aesthetic and cognitive review" (Journal of Social Archaeology...
Barbaza, Michel (20 October 2018). "Cultures of peace and the art of war in Saharanrockart" (PDF). Quaternary International. 491: 125–135. Bibcode:2018QuInt...
The Cave of Swimmers is a cave with ancient rockart in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. It is located in...
Pradesh, India with rockart ranging from the Mesolithic (c.8,000 BC) to historical times North African Mesolithic Saharanrockart – there are over three...
biodiversity existed in the past, as evidenced by scenes portrayed in rock and parietal art found throughout the range, which date back several millennia, even...
Egyptian-Libyan-Sudanese tripoint. Because of thousands of prehistoric rockart sites, it is considered an important witness to the development of early...
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