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The purpose of the Association is to create a
meeting place for all who are enthralled by Saharan
rock art.
The main aims are the diffusion of documents on
Saharan rock art and the promotion of a conservation
culture
The Association publishes the Cahiers de l'AARS
and a twice-yearly Newsletter.
It organises a yearly meeting of its members to help
the exchange
of information and documents. The AARS club is above
all a network of people!
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Jean-Loïc Le Quellec,
chairman |
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Sylvia Donon, secretariat |
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Jean Claude Friquet, treasurer |
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AARS
is member of
IFRAO
(International Federation of Rock Art Organisation) |
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The Association brings
together people of very different profiles and d
Different
nationalities: tourists who have been once to
Jabbaren and who hope to be able to go back there;
travelers who have gone up and down the Oued Djerat
on foot, Lhote’s book in their hands, before taking
a rest in the shade of the palm trees of Nafeg;
researchers who have travelled the length and
breadth of the wadi of the Messak Mellet in their
holidays, to discovermysterious therianthromorphs or
enigmatic symbols, and who then spend the rest of
the year classifying and studying their photos and
drawing up detailed maps from satellite photos.
Within the Association, everyone has his own vision
of rock art. Some are interested in the history of
art, others in prehistory, others in
palaeo-ethology...There are also those who have
never been to the Sahara, but who have discovered in
Saharan rock art books the mystery of the Round
Heads of Sefar, the therianthromorps of the Messak,
the elegance of the herdsmen ofIheren and Ouan Amil,
the impetuous forward rushing of the flying gallop
chariots.
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Everyone has something to talk about, photos to show and the
thirst to listen and look. There are some who complain about the
imperialism of the French and others who don’t understand a word
of German. Some have doctorates in anthropology, others in
physics and others who have no doctorate at all. There are those
who discourse on the Tazina style, discuss whether it could
represent an ethnic group; others debate on the stylistic and
probably chronological different in the horns of the ancient
Buffalo. And then an excellent moment in the AARS meetings is
the one spent in the restaurant. At table, people abandon the
serious tone assumed during the discussions that follow the
presentation of the different talks. At table, the exchange
becomes convivial, and chronologies, styles, impressions and
programmes mix together in the excitement of everyone’s Saharan
memories.
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Last
update of this website
28/05/10
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