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The Sahara was not always a desert

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  • José Manuel García Aguilar Dpto. Ecología y Geología. Universidad de Málaga Spain

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Sahara, Desert, Cave paint, Giraffa

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During an expedition to Mauritania, two sites with rock paintings were visited. These paintings with actual savannah aninals indicate a climate change in the Sahara in the last 8000 years.

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Abd-El-Moniem H. A. A. (2005). A new recording of Mauritanian rock art. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London. 466 p.

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García Aguilar, J. M. (2025). The Sahara was not always a desert. Encuentros En La Biología, 17(191). Retrieved from https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18011

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