Les tumulus à couloir et enclos de la Tassili du Fadnoun, Tassili Azger (Algérie)

Premières datations par la méthode du radiocarbone

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ID9315532
AuthorsHayette Berkani (Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique, corresponding author), Antoine Zazzo (0000-0001-7608-2207, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique), François Paris (0000-0002-0176-7348, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique)
Year2015
Volume13
Issue1
Pages59-70
Publication date2015-06-05
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1612-1651 • E-ISSN: 2191-5784
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.3213/2191-5784-10265
OpenAlexW2587330401
LanguageFR
Citations received13

Among the countless funerary monuments present in the Sahara, the corridor and enclosure tumulus (CET) display particularly original architectural features. Their chronology is now well established for the Nigerien Sahara, but remains poorly known for the Tassili Azger in south-eastern Algeria, despite the abundance of monuments identified. This article presents the first results of direct AMS 14 C dating of the mineral fraction (bioapatite) of human bones from three CET excavated in different sites of the Tassili Fadnoun in 2011. The results indicate that these burials date from the late 4 th or early 3 rd mill BCE and are of similar age to the ones of the CET of Emi Lulu in northern Niger. Despite an extensive geographic distribution across the Sahara, it appears that CET share several common characteristics especially in terms of architecture, burial practices and chronology

Archaeology · Chronology · Geography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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