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Petroglyphs tagged “sahara”

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🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art

Dabous Giraffe Petroglyphs

Early Holocene Bubalus Period (8000–5000 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan hunter-pastoralists (Bubalus tradition)

Aïr life-size 5.8-m giraffes with leashes 8000–5000 BCE, largest Saharan engravings.

≈Accepted

🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Jebel Uweinat Satellite Rock Art — Western Libyan Desert

Holocene Pastoral (Neolithic to Iron Age) · Early Pastoral Saharan hunter-pastoralists, later Garamantian fringe

Western Jebel Uweinat satellite wadis with 300 cattle-pastoral panels 5000–3000 BCE.

≈Accepted

🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art

Gebel Teir and Ain Amur Rock Art, Kharga Oasis

Early Holocene to Late Antiquity · Saharan Epipalaeolithic, Old Kingdom expeditions, Ptolemaic and Coptic oasis settlers

Kharga Oasis scarp petroglyphs from Holocene wet-phase savanna to Coptic, on caravan route.

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🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Messak Settafet Rock Art

Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan

Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.