• The Tenerian culture is a prehistoric industry that existed between the 5th millennium BC and mid-3rd millennium BC in the Sahara Desert. This spans the...
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    the region. It is the type site of the Holocene era Kiffian culture and Tenerian culture. The area was once the location of a freshwater paleolake named...
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    17.583°N 10.917°E / 17.583; 10.917. It is the locus of the Neolithic Tenerian culture. The name Ténéré comes from the Tuareg language, meaning "desert"...
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    Sahara (section Tenerians)
    Holocene Tenerian culture. The post-Kiffian desiccation lasted until around 4600 BCE, when the earliest artefacts associated with the Tenerians have been...
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    Marendet and the Termit Massif. The Kiffian (circa 8000–6000 BC) and later Tenerian (circa 5000–2500 BC) cultures, centred on Adrar Bous and Gobero where skeletons...
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    Most notable are extensive remains of ritualized feasting by specialized Tenerian cattle pastoralists. Its name is written in the Tamasheq language. The...
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    Iwelen, in the Aïr Mountains. Tenerians did not construct the two monumental tumuli at Adrar Bous and Iwelen. Rather, Tenerians constructed cattle tumuli...
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  • through a dry period for the next thousand years. After this time, the Tenerian culture colonized the area. Aterian Ifri n'Amr or Moussa Kelif el Boroud...
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    husbandry and polities within the Sahara continue to thrive, most notably the Tenerian culture with Eurasian genotype. Eurasian migrations continue onwards in...
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    Ita Ogbolu Rockshelter (5000/2000 BP) Kagoro Rockshelter (5000/2000 BP) Tenerian Culture (4300 BCE - 2400 BCE) Adrar Bous Yengema Cave (2560 BCE) Kamabai...
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    period of differentiation from the mainstream of the Afroasiatic lexicon." Tenerian culture Wendorf, Fred; Schild, Romuald (1 January 1986). The Wadi Kubbaniya...
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    burials from what is now called the Kiffian (7700 BCE – 6200 BCE) and the Tenerian (5200 BCE – 2500 BCE) cultures. The classic account of the riparian lifestyle...
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    Iwelen, in the Aïr Mountains. Tenerians did not construct the two monumental tumuli at Adrar Bous and Iwelen. Rather, Tenerians constructed cattle tumuli...
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    Green Sahara, at Gobero, there were two groups: the Kiffians and the Tenerians. Between 10,000 BP and 8000 BP, the Kiffians hunted (e.g., harpoons) undomesticated...
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