Nouvelles recherches, objectifs et premiers résultats sur le paléoenvironnement holocène des sites archéologiques de la région des Dhars Tichitt et Oualata (Mauritanie sud-orientale)

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ID9328273
AuthorsAlain Person (corresponding author), Nour E Saoudi, Sylvie Amblard
Year1995
Volume65
Issue2
Pages9-29
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal des africanistes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/jafr.1995.2428
OpenAlexW2029366173
LanguageFR
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Alain Person, Nour E. Saoudi, Sylvie Amblard The preliminary results of a field campaign performed in January-February 1994 on the environment of the archaeological settlements in the Dhars Tichitt and Oualata region (South-eastern Mauritania) are presented here from a methodological point of view. The sedimentary faciès are interpreted mainly in terms of climatic changes linked to the human settlements. It seems that the most important phase of peopling is not correlated to a climatic optimum. On the contrary, this phase is contemporaneous to the most precarious period. Indeed, at this time, the exceptional morphological features of the Dhars offered a refuge area in the Southern Sahara between 2,500 and 3,500 B.P

Archaeology · Art · Geography · Human settlement · Period (music · Physical geography · African Botany and Ecology Studies · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Geology

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