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Volume 11, Numéro 2, Pages 29-37
2026-03-12

Archaeology And Paleo-environments Of Djbel Boukahil

Authors : Lehachemi Mohamed Tahar .

Abstract

The territory of the Ouled Naïl served as a refuge for Holocene communities (around 7000–4000 B.C.). The coexistence between communities that remained hunter-gatherers and those that adopted a nomadic pastoral lifestyle pushed these societies into a process of Neolithization, visible through the cultural contexts of settlements in the foothills and the rock art sites (wild and domestic fauna) in the Ouled Naïl massif. Numerous traces left by these “Neolithic” groups on rock panels indicate optimal climatic conditions and show human adaptation to a diversified environment through multiple cultural actions

Keywords

Algeria ; Ouled Nail ; Rock Art ; Holocene ; Neolithic ; Pastoralism ; Shepherds, Cattle