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🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic Pastoral (c.5000–3000 BCE; dated by stratum ceramics) · Early Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic / Horn of Africa pastoralists
Exceptionally preserved Neolithic rock art shelters discovered 2002 by French team (Xavier Gutherz): 10 granite alcoves with polychrome paintings 5000–3000 BCE – long-horned cattle with udders,…
