Tenerian Culture

Tenerian Culture

Tenerian is the name given by archaeologists to a prehistoric culture originating in at least the 5th millennium BC and lasting until the mid-3rd millennium BC in the Sahara Desert. This spans the wet period of Saharan history known as the Neolithic Subpluvial as well into the onset of the current arid regime.

Reygasse first used the term Tenerian in 1934 with subsequent scholars producing a clearer definition. The Missions Berliet to the Air Mountains in northern Niger produced the clearest definition prior to J. Desmond Clarke's expedition in early 1970, the results of which were published in November 2008.

Human remains from this culture were first found in the Air Mountains and later, in 2000, at a site known as Gobero, located in Niger in the Ténéré Desert.

Read more about Tenerian Culture:  Discovery, Culture, Decline

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