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Saharan rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing on the precious treasures carved or painted on the natural rocks found in the central Sahara desert. There are over three thousand sites discovered that have information about Saharan rock art. From the Tibesti massif to the Ahaggar Mountains, the Sahara is an open-air museum containing numerous archaeological sites. ==Archaeological site regions== Important regions include: *Cave of Swimmers and Cave of Beasts caves area, Gilf Kebir area, Egypt *Tibesti, Chad *Ennedi, Chad *Mesak Settafet, Libya *Tadrart Acacus, Libya *Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria *South Oran, Algeria *Djelfa, Algeria *Ahaggar, Algeria *Draa River, Morocco *Rock art of Figuig, Morocco *Aïr Mountains, Niger The cave paintings found at Tassili n'Ajjer, north of Tamanrasset, Algeria, and at other locations depict vibrant and vivid scenes of everyday life in the central North Africa between about 8000 BCE and 4000 BCE, in the Mesolithic (Middle Stone) age. They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age (3000 -1900 BC) who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area. The pictures provide the most complete record of a prehistoric African culture. One of the wadis containing 10,000 year old paintings at Tadrart Acacus was spray-painted over this year by a disgruntled Libyan tour guide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saharan rock art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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