Results of Preparatory Surveys on the Tagant Escarpment, Mauritania

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

African Archaeological Review Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI:10.1007/s10437-025-09647-3

Nikolas Gestrich, Maximilian Schulze

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Abstract

This article reports on a short survey carried out on the Tagant escarpment in southeastern Mauritania. This area has a great number of stone-built settlement and funerary sites and an unknown number of sites without stone architecture. The sites show continuity with the well-known neighbouring Tichitt complex of the Ceramic Late Stone Age. However, the Tagant escarpment has so far only been subject to one programme of fieldwork in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Recently, remote sensing work has been carried out there, but many important questions remain unanswered. This article presents the archaeological remains of two areas on the escarpment, laying the groundwork for future field research in this part of Mauritania.

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毛里塔尼亚塔甘特悬崖的预备调查结果

本文报道了在毛里塔尼亚东南部的塔甘特悬崖上进行的一次简短调查。这个地区有大量的石头建造的定居点和墓葬遗址，以及数量不详的没有石头建筑的遗址。这些遗址与邻近著名的晚石器时代陶瓷建筑群Tichitt具有连续性。但是，到目前为止，在1980年代末和1990年代初，塔甘特悬崖只进行了一个实地考察方案。最近，遥感工作已在那里开展，但许多重要问题仍未得到解答。本文介绍了悬崖上两个地区的考古遗迹，为今后在毛里塔尼亚这一地区的实地研究奠定了基础。

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African Archaeological Review Multiple-

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期刊介绍： African Archaeological Review publishes original research articles, review essays, reports, book/media reviews, and forums/commentaries on African archaeology, highlighting the contributions of the African continent to critical global issues in the past and present. Relevant topics include the emergence of modern humans and earliest manifestations of human culture; subsistence, agricultural, and technological innovations; and social complexity, as well as topical issues on heritage. The journal features timely continental and subcontinental studies covering cultural and historical processes; interregional interactions; biocultural evolution; cultural dynamics and ecology; the role of cultural materials in politics, ideology, and religion; different dimensions of economic life; the application of historical, textual, ethnoarchaeological, and archaeometric data in archaeological interpretation; and the intersections of cultural heritage, information technology, and community/public archaeology.