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Tagssaharan
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early to Middle Holocene (8000–3000 BCE) · Saharan hunter-pastoral (Gilf Kebir tradition)
Jebel Uweinat (1,934m) – tri-border massif (Egypt-Libya-Sudan) with Gilf Kebir hunter-pastoral rock art (8000–3000 BCE): cattle, giraffe, ostrich and archer scenes; Ayrton-McMahon 1900s surveys;…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Early Holocene to Garamantian (~12,000 BCE – 100 CE) · Saharan hunter-gatherer to Pastoral Neolithic (Kel Essuf, Round Head, Pastoral)
150-km sandstone plateau on the Algerian border preserves thousands of paintings and engravings in styles paralleling nearby Tassili n'Ajjer: giant Kel Essuf headless figures, Round Head masked…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron (3500 BCE–800 CE tumuli sequence) · Saharan Neolithic to Berber/Garamantian fringe
Awkar surveyed by Vernet & Naffé 1990s, tumuli chain 1000.
