Tassili n'Ajjer (Berber: Tassili n Ajjer, Arabic: طاسيلي ناجر, romanized: ṭāssīlī naʾjir; "Plateau of rivers") is a national park in the Sahara desert...
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The popularly called Tassili mushroom figures are Neolithic petroglyphs and cave paintings discovered in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria, which contain features...
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Tassili n'Ajjer Tibesti Ennedi Messak Tadrart Sabu-Jaddi Adrar Plateau Gilf Kebir Saharan rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing...
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Tassili is the fifth album by the Tuareg-Berber band Tinariwen, recorded in Tassili n'Ajjer, an Algerian national park in 2011. The album marked a major...
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Archaeology of Algeria (section Tassili n'Ajjer)
Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Tassili n'Ajjer". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-04-29. Rock Art of the Tassili n Ajjer, Algeria Archived 2019-09-30...
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Beni Hammad Tassili n'Ajjer M'Zab Valley Djémila Timgad Tipasa Algiers The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World...
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gradually changing into a sand dune desert inland. The plateau of the Tassili n'Ajjer is located in the southeast, and its outstanding collection of prehistoric...
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also found at Dorra and Balho. Many cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the rock...
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province is the home of two national parks: Ahaggar National Park and Tassili n'Ajjer National Park. It is the largest province in Algeria, with an area...
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ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorini reported finding a painted mural from Tassili n'Ajjer in the Sahara desert in southeast Algeria, dated 7000 to 9000 BCE,...
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with people that appear to have been Berber or proto-Berber. As the Tassili n'Ajjer and other rock art findings in the Sahara have shown, the Sahara also...
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Sahara Desert. The Tuareg inhabit this region. To the north lie the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains, which contain cave paintings dating from a period between...
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of rock art panels with images and 3D models. Tassili N'Ajjer, Rock Art of the central Tassili N'Ajjer (Tamrit, Sefar, Tin Tazarift, Jabbaren) Uweinat...
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Libya, in the region (e.g., some in the Tadrart, most abundant in Tassili n'Ajjer) of Algeria, in the region (e.g., Djado) of Nigeria, and the region...
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Ocean to the Red Sea. Some mountains ranges (such as the Ahaggar, Tassili n'Ajjer, Tibesti and Aïr) rise up from the desert and receive more rainfall...
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fauna were luxuriant as is seen in the numerous rock paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer around Djanet. Populations of hunter-gatherers lived there. Djanet...
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separated from the southern Sahara Desert by the Tibesti Mountains and the Tassili n'Ajjer. The “Draa” dunes (from the Arabic for “arm”) are very large masses...
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Adrar Afao, at 2,158 metres (7,080 ft), is the highest peak in the Tassili n'Ajjer range in southeastern Algeria. The range forms the northwest border...
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somewhat equates to the Mesolithic. The Saharan rock paintings found at Tassili n'Ajjer in central Sahara, and at other locations depict vivid scenes of everyday...
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the Holocene (9500 BP - 7500 BP), Round Head rock art was created at Tassili N'Ajjer, in Algeria, and at Tadrart Acacus, in Libya, 70% of which is composed...
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Djurdjura National Park El Kala National Park Gouraya National Park Tassili n'Ajjer National Park Taza National Park Theniet El Had National Park Tlemcen...
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the central Sahara Desert. It is found in a restricted range in the Tassili n'Ajjer Mountains in southern Algeria, and the Tibesti Mountains in northern...
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Mali about 10,000 years ago. Noted sites containing early art include Tassili n'Ajjer in southern Algeria, Tadrart Acacus in Libya (A Unesco World Heritage...
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southeastern quarter is taken up by the high, complex mass of the Ahaggar and Tassili n'Ajjer highlands, some parts of which reach more than 2,000 metres (6,600 ft)...
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Henri Lhote (section Discovery of Tassili)
land to Tassili. Lhote later wrote that he had never seen anything "so extraordinary, so original, so beautiful" as the art at Tassili n'Ajjer. Over 16...
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ecoregion covers 258,100 square kilometres (99,650 sq mi), mostly in the Tassili n'Ajjer of Algeria, with smaller enclaves in the Aïr of Niger, the Adrar Plateau...
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humans and flora and fauna, which date from 12,000 BCE to 100 CE. Tassili n'Ajjer (Algeria) – over 15,000 pastoral and natural engravings; the earliest...
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The rock engravings of Oued Djerat, located in the Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria, and dated to the Neolithic period, have many affinities with those of the...
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accompanied by female drummers in the Sahara oasis of Djanet in the Tassili n'Ajjer region in southern Algeria. The dance originated among the descendants...
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been dated to twelve millennia before present, have been found in the Tassili n'Ajjer region of southeastern Algeria. Other rock art has been discovered...
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