Rock art of South Morocco

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Rock engraving sites in the style known as Tazina are found throughout southern Morocco. The Tazina style, produced by Neolithic pastoralists at a time when the climate was wetter, is characterized by lines that are polished rather than pecked. Animals such as elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes and antelopes are depicted in a graceful style with elongated extremities. Tazina-style sites include the area near Tazzarine oasis, Ait Ouazik, Tata and Akka. A different style of Neolithic engraving with pecked images is found at Adrar n'Metgourine, north of Akka.

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Hippo hunters of Akrotiri: animal bones found in a rock-shelter suggest that the first inhabitants of Cyprus may have arrived 1,500 to 2,000 years earlier than previously thought

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Evidence from the Akrotiri Aetokremnos site in Cyprus suggests that humans had settled on the island by 8500 BC and probably contributed to the extinction of the Cypriot pygmy hippo, Phanourios minutus. The site provides abundant evidence of the association of human artifacts with hippo bones, although the human-hippo association is still somewhat controversial. Some 30 separate radiocarbon dates agree in giving a date for the site averaging 10,465 years before present, which is 1500-2000 years older than any other known site on Cyprus.

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Living rock art

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The reflection of the secret rites of the Malawians in the ancient rock art sites of rural Malawi is discussed. The damage being caused to the rock art sites by tourists is described.

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