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<< Other Photo Pages >> Wadi Tifariti - Standing Stones in Morocco

Submitted by rbatham on Thursday, 24 March 2016  Page Views: 5151

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wadi Tifariti
Country: Morocco
NOTE: This site is 152.106 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Tifariti
Latitude: 26.285850N  Longitude: 10.614534W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Wadi Tifariti
Wadi Tifariti submitted by rbatham : Wadi Tifariti Image copyright: Western Sahara Project (Nick Brooks), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones in Morocco

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Wadi Tifariti
Wadi Tifariti submitted by rbatham : Wadi Tifariti Image copyright: Western Sahara Project (Nick Brooks), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wadi Tifariti
Wadi Tifariti submitted by rbatham : Goulet with stone circle "Goulet" or "gulley" monuments usually consist of a tumulus and/or "paved" area (of concentrated stones) from which emanate two linear stone arrangements and wing-like arrangements. Typically, stone circles are found at the opposite end of the monument from the tumulus or paved area. Little is known about the function of these monuments, but at least some of them are proba... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Wadi Tifariti by Andy B on Friday, 08 April 2016
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There are quite a few photos on Flickr

Tifariti Monuments
Monuments in the main Tifariti study area, an approximately 10 sq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/western_sahara_project/sets/72157620805440725

More albums
https://www.flickr.com/photos/western_sahara_project/albums/with/72157620805440725

We can just use one page for the whole area for now - we can always divide up later on.
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A Refuge in the Desert? by Andy B on Friday, 08 April 2016
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Little is known about the archaeology of Western Sahara, and very little research has been conducted in the territory. However, this situation is changing as the territory begins to open up to foreign researchers.

Monumental burials and associated structures are extremely abundant in Western Sahara. Over 400 such monuments have been recorded in an area of around nine square kilometres north of Tifariti over the past few field seasons of the Western Sahara Project, and reconnaissance surveys indicate that such funerary landscapes are likely to be widespread throughout the territory. It is clear that sometime after about 4000 BCE, cattle herding arrived in Western Sahara as the rest of the region was drying out, raising the possibility that Western Sahara acted as a refuge for people fleeing aridity further east.

More at
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2010/the-western-sahara-a-refuge-in-the-desert
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The Western Sahara Project by rbatham on Friday, 08 April 2016
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More information here https://westernsaharaproject.wordpress.com/publications/ with access to PDF files
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