SUMMARY. — The paintings of Ifran-n-Taska are one of the rare testimonies of this kind of non-eng... more SUMMARY. — The paintings of Ifran-n-Taska are one of the rare testimonies of this kind of non-engraved rock art in Morocco. The site is of high relevance for a comprehensive approach of archaeology of the whole Eastern Jbel Bani which lays to the South-West of Zagora, in the presaharan fringes of Morocco. A Moroccan-Italian research programme has been set up to study these paintings in their whole ethnoarchaeological context. The first fieldwork has been undertaken from 10 to 25 of October 2009 by a pluridisciplinary team composed by four prehistorians, one anthropologist and one geologist. The drawings have been made of red ochre, white, black and yellow, on the inner sides of five shelters at the edge of a dry river. Besides the inventory and study of these paintings, the fieldwork has undertaken an extensive prospection in the whole of the plateau of Tafraout-n-Taska. Comprehensive interviews have also been conducted with the chiefs of a couple of Aït Atta nomadic families that a...
... Titre du document / Document title. Direct dating of painted rock art in the LibyanSahara. Au... more ... Titre du document / Document title. Direct dating of painted rock art in the LibyanSahara. Auteur(s) / Author(s). PONTI Rosanna (1) ; SINIBALDI Massimo (2) ; Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s). (1) Department ...
SUMMARY. — The paintings of Ifran-n-Taska are one of the rare testimonies of this kind of non-eng... more SUMMARY. — The paintings of Ifran-n-Taska are one of the rare testimonies of this kind of non-engraved rock art in Morocco. The site is of high relevance for a comprehensive approach of archaeology of the whole Eastern Jbel Bani which lays to the South-West of Zagora, in the presaharan fringes of Morocco. A Moroccan-Italian research programme has been set up to study these paintings in their whole ethnoarchaeological context. The first fieldwork has been undertaken from 10 to 25 of October 2009 by a pluridisciplinary team composed by four prehistorians, one anthropologist and one geologist. The drawings have been made of red ochre, white, black and yellow, on the inner sides of five shelters at the edge of a dry river. Besides the inventory and study of these paintings, the fieldwork has undertaken an extensive prospection in the whole of the plateau of Tafraout-n-Taska. Comprehensive interviews have also been conducted with the chiefs of a couple of Aït Atta nomadic families that a...
... Titre du document / Document title. Direct dating of painted rock art in the LibyanSahara. Au... more ... Titre du document / Document title. Direct dating of painted rock art in the LibyanSahara. Auteur(s) / Author(s). PONTI Rosanna (1) ; SINIBALDI Massimo (2) ; Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s). (1) Department ...
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