Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Tassili n'Ajjer' has mentioned 'Rock art' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Geography 2 Geology 3 Ecology 4 Archaeology 4.1 Background 4.2 Current Archaeological Interpretation 5 Prehistoric art 6 Fungoid rock art 7 In popular culture 8 Gallery 8.1 The rock engravings of Tin-Taghirt 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links | WIKI |
| Its panorama of geological formations of rock forests, composed of eroded sandstone, resembles a lunar landscape and hosts a range of rock art styles. | WIKI |
| Algerian rock art had been subject to European study since 1863, with surveys conducted by "A. Pomel (1893-1898), Stxc3xa9phane Gsell (1901-1927), G. B. M. Flamand (1892-1921), Leo Frobenius and Hugo Obermaier (1925), Henri Breuil (1931-1957), L. Joleaud (1918-1938), and Raymond Vaufrey (1935-1955). | WIKI |
| The transition to pastoralism following the African Humid period during the early Holocene is reflected in Tassili n'Ajjer's archaeological material record, rock art, and zooarchaeology. | WIKI |
| The rock art at Tassili is used in conjunction with other sites, including Dhar Tichitt in Mauritania,[21] to study the development of animal husbandry and trans-Saharan travel in North Africa. | WIKI |
| The rock formation is an archaeological site, noted for its numerous prehistoric parietal works of rock art, first reported in 1910,[4] that date to the early Neolithic era at the end of the last glacial period during which the Sahara was a habitable savanna rather than the current desert. | WIKI |
| Similar to other Saharan sites with rock art, Tassili can be separated into five distinct traditions: Archaic (10,000 to 7,500 BCE), Round Head (7550 to 5050 BCE), Bovidian or Pastoral (4,500 to 4,000 BCE), Horse (from 2,000 BCE and 50 CE), and Camel (1000 BCE and onward). | WIKI |
| Fungoid rock art[edit] | WIKI |
| One of the most important scenes is to be found in the Tin-Tazarift rock art site, at Tassili, in which we find a series of masked figures in line and hieratically dressed or dressed as dancers surrounded by long and lively festoons of geometrical designs of different kinds... Each dancer holds a mushroom-like object in the right hand and, even more surprising, two parallel lines come out of this object to reach the central part of the head of the dancer, the area of the roots of the two horns. | WIKI |
| However, it is the rock art (engravings and paintings) that have made Tassili world famous as from 1933, the date of its discovery. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The rock art images cover a period of about 10,000 years. | UNESCO |
| The property contains all the key rock art sites and landscapes representing its natural beauty and all the sites of biological and ecological diversity that compose the attributes of Outstanding Universal Value. | UNESCO |
| The richness of the cultural heritage of rock art and archaeological vestiges, together with the natural diversity of the ecosystem, fauna, flora and wetlands, fully reflect Outstanding Universal Value. | UNESCO |