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Painting of the "Round Head" school.
Sefar - Tassili of Tamrit |
Saharan rock art was made known to the general public by the exhibition " Prehistoric Paintings of the Sahara ", organised at the Marsan Pavillion in Paris in December 1957. This exhibition displayed the main results of Henri Lhote's mission to the Tassili-n-Ajjer in 1956 and 1957. |
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Painting of the "Iheren-Tahilahi" school.
Iheren - Tadjelamine Plateau. |
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Map of the Tassili-n-Ajjer with the main rock art stations described by H. Lhote |
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Painting of the "Round Head" school.
Tan Zoumaitak - Tassili of Tamrit |
Lhote's discoveries made known a vast number of images of all periods, mainly paintings. They were presented in the form of sumptuous, full-size colour "reproductions".
Very quickly, Lhote proposed a carefully thought-out
classification, hinging on a credible artistic history. |
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Engraving of a lying-down gazelle, "Naturalistic Bubaline" school.
Ti-n-Terirt - Dider Plain. |
The rock art of the Tassili now took its place - well-deserved - alongside the great artistic groups of the Mediterranean region, such as Egyptian art, Cretan Art and Franco-Cantabric Palaeolithic art. |
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