ABSTRACT
In a geographical view, Tassili presents a striking combination of marginality and liminality thus, by the fact creating a certain affinity with Catalhoeyuek. The physical features of Tassili epitomise alienness, while at the same resembling the oldest homes of humankind. The laborious procedure that was involved in one of the strangest figures in the whole pantheon of Tassili images is emphatically documented. The images of Tassili, even at their most abstract or conceptual, in their sense of a distance from nature, were certainly poised to evoke impulses. The image is indeed central for Tassili, was found in Gobekli Tepe and even has similarity with Palaeolithic engravings, going back to Pergouset. The position of Tassili seems to have shifted from extremely marginal into highly liminal in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, which in Tassili is related to the transition from the Bubaline to the Round Head periods.
