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Tagsinselberg
5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Late Ife to Yoruba Oyo-Benin (1100–1928) · Yoruba Idanre (Udane)
Idanre Hills (Oke Idanre) is the hilltop abandoned Yoruba city 680 m above sea on Inselberg 3 km N of Idanre town, occupied 11th–1928 c.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age to Modern (c. 400–1900 CE; ritual ongoing) · Iron Age (Early Kano) / Hausa / Fulani
Dala Hill (Goron Dutse pair) is Kano's 534-m granite inselberg nucleus where Kano city was founded by Dala Iron Age smiths (c. 400 CE) before Hausa walling, with 999-step stair.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Microlithic to 2,000 BCE (c.6000–2000 BCE painting) · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
Brandberg (Daureb) Massif – Namibia's granite massif with 1,000+ shelters; White Lady shelter (Maack Shelter) polychrome painting (c.2000 BCE) of white lady with bow, oryx, tasselled figures.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Fortress
Medieval Hausa to Sokoto period (13th–19th c. CE) · Hausa (Katsina)
Granite inselberg hillfort south of Katsina with rock gongs.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Medieval Akan (Bono) (11th–18th c. CE) · Akan (Bono–Adansi)
Granite dome fortress refuge of Bono state with white dot art shelters.
