The search for the Tassili frescoes : the story of the prehistoric rock-paintings of the Sahara
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TextLondon Hutchinson 1960Description: 237p.; ill. (incl. maps); notesContent type: - text
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Transl from the French by Alan Houghton Brodrick.
Saharan perspectives. Headed for the Tassili. The first survey at Tan-Zoumiatak. The cypresses of Tamrit. A herdsman's culture. Jabbaren with its five thousand figures. The sanctuary of Aouanrhet. A Saharan summer. From one expedition to another. The new team at Ti-n-Tazarift. The great god of Sefar. The ancient route through the Central Sahara. A dying people: the Tuareg of the Tassili. The fresco of twelve phases. Prachutes. Mission accomplished. Did we discover Atlantis?. Trial balance
'It is a remarkable book which is at once an important contribution to our knowledge of prehistory and an adventure story to delight non-specialist travel-readers....These findings indisputably reveal the central Sahara to have been in neolithic times one of the richest and most active areas of neolithic art, while the extraordinary richness and variety of styles and subject-matter in the paintings should give prehistorians food for thought and argument for a decade to come.' --Lawrence Durell
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