Great God of Sefar Tasili
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Great God of Sefar Tasili
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting
Description
Great God of Sefar, Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria ,Round Head Period, 8,000-10,000 BP. Digital oil painting.
Pre-historic rock painting at Sefar known as the Great God. It is a white figure outlined in red, facing forward with arms bent and raised. The "god" wears arm, wrist, waist and leg bands. It has two protrusions at the elbows and the head shows ears/horns/headdress. The figure is superimposed across torso by a white antelope-like animal and a cloud/flower-like shape.Round Head period.
We don't know how and where African of rock art began —some ten million images across the continent. Scholars have estimated the earliest art to date to 12,000 or more years ago, but very few firm dates exist. In the north, where rock art tends to be quite diverse, research has placed works in chronological sequence based on style and content. This approach results in useful classification and dating systems, dividing the Tassili paintings and engravings into periods of concurrent and overlapping traditions. The Running Horned Woman is estimated to date to approximately 6,000 to 4,000 B.C.E., placing it within the "round head period", but offers little in the way of interpretation of the painting itself.
Tassili n'Ajjer (Plateau of rivers) is a national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in southeastern Algeria. It holds one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world, and covers an area of more than 72,000 km2 (28,000 sq mi). Tassili was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1982
More amazing Cave Art sorted in caves and animals just one copy-paste away at theCaveArtGallery.com
Weston Westmoreland
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February 27th, 2024
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