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Niger - Ténéré - a millstone Neolithic, found with his crusher.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Tin-Tazarift - Several people painted with brown ocher
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Jabbaren - Hunting Scene
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Site Jabbaren - Pastoral scene painted in red ocher
Niger - Tadrart - Site In-Djaren - Giraffe painted in a shelter, width 43 cm
Niger - Tadrart - Site In-Djaren - Rock isolated with 8 carved elephants
Niger - Aïr – Site Tagueït-up - Fresco of carved giraffes
Niger - Djado - Enneri Blaka, Site 5 - Engraving of a rhinoceros, period of hartebeest
Algeria - Séfar (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Typical pastoral scene, 2.80 m above ground level.
Algeria - Tin-Tazarift (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Odd "ship shape". However, the floatability is not proved.
Dabous (Aïr occidentale) – Fresco with animals: giraffes, ibexes (?) Etc. The giraffe measures 1.15 m from nose to tail.
Algeria - Terrarart (Tassili-n’Ajjer) – Engraving of four cattle, very deeply worked, partly polished. In the center "The Weeping Cow".
Tendarine (Niger-Aïr) – Engraving of giraffes and antelopes
The sacred city of Machu Picchu, seen from Huayna Picchu.
Upon a hilltop in the shadow of mount Huayna Picchu (in the background), the sacred city of Machu Picchu (“old mountain” in Quechua) was erected in the 15th century under ¬the Inca emperor Pachacutec. In 1983 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and in 2007 it was designated as one of the seven new wonders of the world by NewOpenWorld Foundation.
When the Sahara was still green, it was inhabited by numerous representatives of the African fauna, many of which can still be found in the more fertile areas today. As proof, this 2.65 meter-long engraving of an elephant is to be seen in one of the most beautiful and significant rock-art sites from the so-called Bubaline period (Wadi Mathendous, Fezzan, Libya).
Instead of being engraved on the walls of caves, as usual, this impressive rock engraving of a sleeping gazelle was carved into a rock ledge under open sky at the Tin-Terhert site (Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria). Nowadays, this site, which was inventoried by Henri Lhote in the 1950’s, can only be reached on foot with the help of a guide.
These enigmatic threefold spirals in the Wadi Djerat were etched in rock with a simple stone wedge next to the imposing engraving of a rhinoceros on the northern Tassili Plateau, Algeria.
Kokopelli, the humpbacked flute player of Galisteo (New Mexico, USA), belongs to the pantheon of the Pueblo Indians (pre-Columbian era). He strangely reminds one of other characters represented in other corners of the world, like in ancient Greece. But why is he humpbacked? The question remains unanswered.
The ruins of Machu Picchu – shot here from the top of mount Huayna Picchu – remained forgotten during four centuries before they were rediscovered in 1911 by American archaeologist and researcher Hiram Bingham, from Yale University.
Projectile points, made of flint and quartz, frequently found near mammoth and bison bones. The fourth point from the left is grooved at the base to make it easier to fasten it to the shaft. Longest point: 3.88 inches. Paleo-Indian Period, Clovis Culture, approximately 9500 B.C., ASM. ASM = Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson (Arizona)
The idea that the first humans lived in a shell is a frequently recurring theme in the various creation myths of the Northwest Coast Indians. This small bone figure, 41 mm (2 inches) high, was dug up together with its protecting shell at Ozette, the archaeological site on the Olympic Peninsula. It is on exhibit at the Makah Museum (Neah Bay, Washington, USA).
The legends are only available in German, French or SpanishPeintures rupestres de Mazo Cruz, à 4500 mètres (département de Puno, Pérou). Quel Champollion déchiffrera les fresques pariétales des cavernes sacrées de Kelkatani, la «pierre écrite» entre 7000 et 10.000 ans? Ces danses cynégétiques de chorégraphes archaïques, auréolés de plumes, furent peintes à l'ocre rouge sur un kran granitique large de 26 mètres et haut de 6, par le chaman d'une mystérieuse civilisation d'altitude.
The legends are only available in German, French or SpanishSorte de «Jérusalem» des Andes, le célèbre site archéologique de Chavin de Huantar s'élève à 3 200 mètres dans la Cordillera Blanca. D'insolites stèles gravées y ont été mises au jour. Celle-ci est ornée d'un grand prêtre-dieu d'un culte magico-religieux qui influença tout l'ancien Pérou environ deux mille ans av. J.C. Portant un sceptre, coiffés et ceinturés de serpents, les étranges personnages de Chavin sont souvent ailés. Crocs et griffes de félins ou serres de rapace sont caractéristiques du style. (Hauteur de la stèle, 78 centimètres; largeur, 70 centimètres.)
