From Arlit, you enter the Aïr inside the foothills of the north-western part of the massif. The valley of Mammanet (the squash) has several kilometres of numerous cave engravings to various subjects: naturaliste giraffes of up to 2 m, rhino, elephants, character with several feathers on the head bearing a shield, a single two-wheeled tank and one drawbar, cattle, ostriches, ostriches, etc. According to other discoveries of tanks carved in the Aïr, it is likely that they were towed by horses but the identification of the chars. attelage animals are not certain. Tank users would be the characters at three-point tulip. The tank and horses were introduced from the Central Sahara in the Aïr, several engravings of the way along their way of penetration were able to determine their provenance. Domestic fauna reveals a pastoral economy based on beef rearing, but practiced by tournaments populations. The ceremonial art of this date valley at the beginning of the century before J. ﷓ C. until the introduction of the camel in the Sahara towards a thousand. On the plateaus, the carvings, tombs shaped as Neolithic mound, monuments of the post-Neolithic Alignés, and the Islamic puits tombs are numerous.

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