L’influence saharienne sur les gravures du sud-ouest des monts des Ksours : la station de Moghrar Tahtani, Aïn Safra. Atlas saharien, Algérie

Abstract

The rock art of the Saharan Atlas, witness to large-scale climatic changes, provides valuable evidence on the different circulation movements and interactions between human groups. The diversity observed in the rock art stations in the south and south-west of the Ksours mountains testifies to an internal evolution but also to the contributions of different populations from elsewhere. This is the case of the station of Moghrar Tahtani which illustrates, through different themes, analogies with the engravings of the central Sahara. Indeed, this station brings together several elements that were introduced into the region as the Arriva log Saharan groups fleeing the forming desert.