ABSTRACT
As with rock art everywhere in the world, the tens of thousands of pictures known from the Sahara (Fig. 6.1) largely represent animals. A large part of these are domestic animals. If we are allowed to advance a merely subjective evaluation — an intuitive estimate, just to give a hint about the proportions — we think that animals account for approximately 75 per cent of the Saharan pictures, around a third to a half of them being domestic ones, mainly cattle. Therefore, these representations of domestic animals include an impressive mass of data relating to description and history of fauna. Map of the sites mentioned in the text. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203984239/71b6f84c-ce3a-4ed0-98c5-c0b7e0848559/content/fig6_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> They provide drawings that are sometimes fairly detailed, at least within the schools of the naturalistic style. It is amazing that archaeozoologists make so little use of this stock of data.
