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    Default Messak Settafet - 75 artefacts per square metre

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    Quote Messak Settafet & Mellet: a half-moon-shaped range of mountains below Wadi Alajal and north of Edhan Murzuk, which runs in a south-west direction all the way to Wan Casa. The first range (the eastern part) is Messak Settafet, while the western part (near Acacus) is Messak Mellet. Various engravings of animals, humans and mythical beings are to be found in a number of valleys across the range.


    Saharan 'carpet of tools' is the earliest known man-made landscape

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/...made-landscape



    Quote A new intensive survey of the Messak Settafet escarpment, a massive outcrop of sandstone in the middle of the Saharan desert, has shown that stone tools occur “ubiquitously” across the entire landscape: averaging 75 artefacts per square metre, or 75 million per square kilometre.

    Researchers say the vast ‘carpet’ of stone-age tools – extracted from and discarded onto the escarpment over hundreds of thousands of years – is the earliest known example of an entire landscape being modified by hominins: the group of creatures that include us and our ancestral species.
    https://www.temehu.com/messak-settafet-and-mellet.htm

    Quote The name Messak Settafet & Mellet is also found as Mesach Mellet & Settafed, and as Amsach Mellet & Settafed (as in Google maps). In EWP's Djebel Akakus (Jebel Acacus) Tourist Map & Guide they are marked as Msak Mustafit & Msak Mallat. The exposed stones are covered with dark varnish colouring known as patina. This layer is apparently a few microns thick of oxides of iron and manganese. Experts believe that the sandstone does not contain such minerals and that its age, around 5000 years, coincides with the period when this part of the Sahara was very wet and hence the time when the patina was formed.



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