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Places tagged “adrar”

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🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works

Foggaras of the Touat (Adrar–Reggane Foggaras)

Sanhaja Berber to Marinid · Touat Zenete–Sanhaja oasis

Touat Adrar: 84 foggaras 140 km Africa's densest Sahara foggara corridor 27.87N.

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art

Adrar Bous (Adrar Bou Achchouch?? corrected: Adrar des Ifoghas sector)

Neolithic to Pastoral (6000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic pastoralists / Libyco-Berber

Adrar plateau quartzite guelb rock engravings west of Atar with Neolithic interdune settlement.

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Tumulus

Cessa Mound — Ancillary Embankment North (Mauretania)

Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age

Cessa Mound — Ancillary Embankment North (Mauretania) in Adrar, Chinguetti, Cessa, Mauritania is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attr…