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4 unusual facts about Tassili n'Ajjer


Tassili n'Ajjer

Tassili is the recording location and the title of a 2011 album by the Tuareg-Berber band Tinariwen.

In his 1992 book Food of the Gods, new-age icon Terence McKenna hypothesized that the Neolithic culture that inhabited the site used psilocybin mushrooms as part of its religious ritual life, citing rock paintings showing persons holding mushroom-like objects in their hands, as well as mushrooms growing from their bodies.

The art is no older than 9–10 millennia, according to OSL dating of associated sediments, but may be younger.

Bahn, Paul G. (1998) The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.


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The Tassili N'Ajjer is a sandstone plateau to the northeast of the Hoggar Mountains.


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