Amazmaz

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Amazmaz
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Gueltas of Amazmaz
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Shown within Mauritania
Location Adrar plateau
Region Adrar, Mauritania
Coordinates 19°43′00″N13°26′00″W / 19.71667°N 13.43333°W / 19.71667; -13.43333
History
Periods Neolithic

Amazmaz is an isolated elevation with steep slopes in the western part of the Adrar plateau in Mauritania, 400 km northeast of the capital Nouakchott. [1]

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Rock paintings of the Amazmaz gueltas

At the foot of the hill there are the gueltas of Amazmaz, a chain of ponds, hidden among rocks and surrounded by rushes, but used for thousands of years, as evidenced by the rock paintings on the slopes bordering the waters. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Geography of Amazmaz (retrieved 2020-03-15).
  2. ↑ Robert Vernet, Baouba Ould Mohamed Naffé: Dictionnaire archéologique de la Mauritanie. Université de Nouakchott, 2003.
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