Photo Gallery

Dunes in the morning light at Jabbaren.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

Landscape image from the Oued Amazzar.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

The Akba Aroum pass leads from Djanet to Jabbaren.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

Dunes in the morning light at Jabbaren.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

Rock arch in Jabbaren.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

Rock formation with shelter in Jabbaren.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

The "black archer". Ochre painting that leaves no doubt about the hunter's ethnicity. He wears a strange hairstyle and probably a loincloth as he draws his bow forward. From the left end of the bow to the end of the left hand: 0.20 m.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993

Very beautiful fresco with cattle from the pastoral period, painted with red ochre and white paint. Black browns, greens, blues and yellows were achieved by combining red ochre with various metal oxides.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993

The shelter of the "Abyssinian" in Jabbaren. On the following picture a detail of it.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993

The "Abyssinian". This beautiful painting shows us a person with fine features, luxuriant hair and a beard. There are not only blacks and whites. There is a whole ethnic group made up of dark-skinned whites. They are numerous in East Africa and used to frequent the Sahara.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993

Hands in negative form. They are moving because they represent the sign of a person who placed them on the rock with a wish. Was it fulfilled?
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993

A shelter on the edge of a river, the floor of which consists of a soft slab of rock eroded by water and wind. Most of the rock paintings are preserved in the man-sized, blanket-like rock pieces. Detail in the following picture.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993

Very nice document that shows well the use of the walls of a rock shelter. Its floor forms a continuation of the floor of the neighbouring abris. The large herd of cattle is typical of the beautiful polychrome paintings from the pastoral period and shows the homogeneity of a type of cattle with many different types of coat. Width of the depicted painting: 1.20 m.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - Jabbaren - 1993