2024

CHAABET EL MAAREK (SHELTER OF ROCK PAINTINGS)

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The Ghomrassen valley has rock painting sites dating back 4,000 to 5,000 years: Chaabet El Maarek, but also Taguet Hamed and Insefri. The settlement of the region dates back to the Paleolithic and continued until the Neolithic, 8,000 years ago to 4,000 years BC. These superb paintings made with red ochre represent characters as well as domestic fauna (cattle and canids) and wild (felines, elephants, ostriches and antelopes).

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