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Comments on MetaFilter post Tassili Rock ArtThu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:56 -0800Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:56 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Tassili Rock Art
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<a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/179">The rock art of the Tassili culture is found throughout North African mountains, the Tassili n'Ajjer.</a> The rock art of Europe is well known around the world. Lesser known but just as amazing and less well-understood is the <a href="http://www.naturalarches.org/tassili/rockart.htm">rock art of North Africa.</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/61144/Libya">prev.</a>,<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/49990/Rock-art-in-the-Sahara">prev.</a>) This tradition is thought to have developed independently of European rock art although researchers<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tass/hd_tass.htm"> agree about very little else about it.</a> This art hearkens back to a time <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080500.htm">when the Sahara's climate was milder and more wet.</a> This rock art has often been compared to the <a href="http://www.theartofafrica.co.za/serv/rockart.jsp">pre-Nguni San rock art of Southern Africa.</a> There are of course people who believe that <a href="http://www.geocities.com/tasosmit2001/alienartifacts.htm">aliens did it.</a> The more research that is done about this area and its archaeology, the more we may have to rethink our <a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1996/A/199600627.html">ideas <a href="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/434">about</a> </a> <a href="http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.html">the</a> <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1021_051021_sahara_artifacts.html">Sahara.</a> . Sadly enough, like many archaeological sites it is becoming <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23141587-32682,00.html">endangered.</a>post:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:30:45 -0800anansiTassilirockartAfricaSaharaArchaeologyAnthropologyArtNorthAfricaClimateChangeBy: Mister_A
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996278
Rockin'! You have a bad link though (Sahara's climate...)comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996278Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:56 -0800Mister_ABy: carter
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996292
Nice links, thanks anansi!
Sadly, I <i>just</i> saw this on the BBC, about the Lajuad site in Western Sahara:
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7219297.stm">Peacekeepers 'deface ancient art'</a>
It was reported by Nick Brook, a climatologist.
<a href="http://nickbrooks.wordpress.com/">His blog</a>
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/western_sahara_project/sets/72157603491003320/">His Flickr stream</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996292Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:47:03 -0800carterBy: anansi
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996308
here's the bad link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080500.htmcomment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996308Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:03:39 -0800anansiBy: prostyle
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996313
Hrm, I once had <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/68927/Seeking-Tassili-Cave-Painting-Photograph">a question</a> about a specific painting featured in those caves, this will be good reading. Thank you!
That is unbelievable, carter, ugh.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996313Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:05:27 -0800prostyleBy: Joakim Ziegler
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996360
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yxN8ctGSE">Rock art of England</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996360Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:53:55 -0800Joakim ZieglerBy: languagehat
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996381
Nice first post!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996381Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:12:51 -0800languagehatBy: nihlton
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996419
the irony is that the tassili art was scrawled over 12 thousand year old vandalism. archaeologists at the time were also disappointed.
I don't mean to belittle the loss to science and our understanding of our past, but its just kind of funny that humans are for better or worse, more or less the same when and where ever you go.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996419Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:43:27 -0800nihltonBy: XMLicious
http://www.metafilter.com/68675/Tassili-Rock-Art#1996818
Yes. We each have a little Bamiyan-bombing Taliban inside us, striving to express himself with vandalism and iconoclasm.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.68675-1996818Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:14:17 -0800XMLicious
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