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The Tassili Mountains in southern Algeria are part of the World Cultural Heritage, particularly because of its rich rock art. Thousands of magnificent pictures are witness to a time when there was pasture where today desert prevails. The pictures show not only that cattle were herded there but they also show a pastoral life that seems so familiar to the local
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Tuareg. Accordingly the Tuareg use the same word for the rock paintings as for their writing: Tifinaqh. But what can the old Tuareg read from the art? What does it tell them about the life of cattle pastoralists before the severe climate change?
Issak Oukafi Cheikh is not only a trained
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