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🇹🇩 Chad · Rock art

Ennedi Rock Art

Neolithic Pastoral to Iron Age ~7000 BP–1000 CE · Saharan Pastoralist to Toubou ancestors

Ennedi sandstone shelters with 7 kyr cattle-to-camel paintings around Saharan guelta lakes.