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The Tanzoumaitak cave painting in Tassili n'ajjer
2023-02-07
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This zoomorphic cave paintingis located Tanzoumaitak in Tassili n'ajjer park in Djanet in Algeria. This is one of more than thousannds of cave paintings discovered by Henri Lhote and his team and they was guided by Djebrine Machar a Touareg guide who was known for a great expertise in the great Sahara's cave paintings.
All the cave painting of this park are dated from the Neolithic 10000BC.