The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era.
Camille Arambourg was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian.
The International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (IFRAO) is a coordinating body of 60 organizations concerned with prehistoric rock art.
Folleville is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The rock art of south Oran, are prehistoric engravings dating from the Neolithic period, which are found in the south of Oran Province, Algeria, in the Saharan Atlas Mountains, in the regions of Figuig, Ain Sefra, El-Bayadh, Aflou and Tiaret. Comparable engravings have been described, even further east, around Djelfa and in the region of Constantine. Although in the past some archaeologists affirmed that these engravings derived from European Upper Paleolithic art, this theory is today definitively rejected.
The rock art of the Djelfa region in the Ouled Naïl Range (Algeria) consists of prehistoric cave paintings and petroglyphs dating from the Neolithic age which have been recognized since 1914. Following the Saharan Atlas Mountains they follow on from those, to the west, of south Oran, to which they are related. Comparable engravings have also been described further to the east, in the Constantine (Algeria) region.
Edmond Couchot was a French digital artist and art theoretician who taught at the University Paris VIII.
Michel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
Association des Amis de l'Art Rupestre Saharien is a French scientific organisation focusing on the rock art of the Sahara. It was established in 1991.
Maya Abdallah Haïdar-Boustani is a Lebanese archaeologist and curator of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory at Saint Joseph University, Beirut.
The rock art of the Figuig region of Morocco and Algeria are prehistoric engravings from the Neolithic period, similar to those found in the South Oran region. Along the Saharan Atlas, they precede the engravings in the eastern regions of Ain Sefra, El-Bayadh, Aflou, and Tiaret. Comparable engravings have also been described further east, around Djelfa and in the Constantine region.
Odette Loyen du Puigaudeau was a French ethnologist, traveler and journalist. With artist Marion Sénones (1886–1977), she made three trips to northern Africa to conduct field research among the nomads of the western Sahara region.
The Ouled Naïl Range is a mountain range in Algeria, part of the Saharan Atlas of the greater Atlas Mountain System. The range is named after a confederation of nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, all of which claim to hail from Arab ancestors of Banu Hilal origin and this was proven by their genetics.
Béatrix Midant-Reynes is a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 2010 to 2015. In 2004, Midant-Reynes won the Diane Potier-Boès Award for her work on the origins of Egypt. Midant-Reynes currently co-directs archaeological work at Wadi Sannur. She previously also was director of archaeological work at Tell el-Iswid from 2006 to 2016, Kom el-Khilgan from 2002 to 2005, co-director at Adaïma from 1989 to 2005, co-director at Maghar-Dendera in 1987. She was also responsible for the publication of the lithic material at the Ain Asil site, Dakhla Oasis.
Yann Le Bohec is a French historian and epigraphist, specializing in ancient Rome, in particular North Africa during Antiquity and military history.
Claire Lalouette is a French Egyptologist, former scientific member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale and Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Claude-Hélène Perrot was a French historian and Africanist who specialized in the history of Côte d'Ivoire. She served as a professor of contemporary African history at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne from 1983 to 1993. Perrot's main areas of research concerned the history of the Akan of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana before colonization, mainly the Anyi and the Eotile; the use of oral tradition by historians; as well as relations between traditional African religions and political power. She was honored as Commander, Order of Ivory Merit.
Nacéra Benseddik is an Algerian historian, archaeologist and epigrapher. She was born in Bordj Bou Arreridj on 4 December 1949.
The Battle of Moulouya took place in May 1692 at a ford on the Moulouya river in Morocco. It was fought between the armies of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail and those of the Dey of Algiers Hadj Chabane.
The rock engravings of Oued Djerat, located in the Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria, and dated to the Neolithic period, have many affinities with those of the South Oranese (Algeria) and the Fezzan (Libya). According to Henri Lhote, they date back more than 7000 years.
