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Tassili n'Ajjer

Vast sandstone plateau in south-east Algeria holding more than 15,000 rock paintings and engravings spanning 12,000 years, from the earliest hunter-gatherer 'Round Head' art through a pastoral herding phase to horse and camel imagery - a direct record of the Sahara's transformation from a green savanna to desert.

Dated events and their evidence

• 10,000 BCE mainstream
  earliest ('Archaic') rock art tradition begins source
• 6,000 BCE mainstream
  Round Head and pastoral ('Bovidian') art, depicting a green Sahara with cattle source

Where

25.1667° N, 8.1833° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassili_n%27Ajjer
• https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/african-rock-art-tassili-n-ajjer-8000-b-c

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