From art to context: Holocene roots of an Initial Neolithic Pastoralism (INP) in the Atlas Ouled Naïl, Algeria

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• 作者：Colette Roubet^a ; ^{croubet@mnhn.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Iddir Amara^b
• 关键词：Algeria ; Rock art ; Shepherds ; Cattle ; Pastoralism ; Neolithic
• 刊名：Quaternary International
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：29 July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：410
• 期：part_PA
• 页码：103-122
• 全文大小：4500 K

文摘

The Algerian Highlands and their surroundings attracted Holocene communities by 7000–4000 cal BC. Co-existence of hunter-gatherers and shepherds of an Initial Neolithic Pastoralism phase (INP) is documented by cultural contexts from foothill settlements and rock engravings/paintings sites (game and domestic flocks), in the Ouled Naïl and Ouled Djellal areas. Shepherds' signatures on cliffs dated from optimum climatic conditions showed a mosaic of behaviours within a cultural diversity. They add their semantic contributions to a mid-Holocene framework. Further pastoral development lasted until late settlement of an agro-pastoral tribal system in these Highlands, “Country of the Sheep”.