Rock Art Of South Oran (Algeria)
The rock art of south Oran, are prehistoric engravings of Neolithic age in the south of Oran Province, Algeria, in the Saharan Atlas Mountains, in the regions (from west to east) of Figuig, Ain Sefra, El-Bayadh, Aflou and Tiaret. Comparable engravings have been described, even further east, around Djelfa and in the region of Constantine. Although in the past some authors affirmed that that these engravings derived from European Upper Paleolithic art, this theory is today definitively rejected.
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