Adrar Bous

Adrar Bous
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height	1123 m
location	Agadez , Niger
Mountains	Aïr
Coordinates	20 ° 22 '15 " N , 9 ° 1' 30" E Coordinates: 20 ° 22 '15 " N , 9 ° 1' 30" E

The Adrar Bous (also Adragh Bous ) is a 1123 m high mountain in the Aïr high mountains in Niger .

geography

The Adrar Bous is a black pluton on the northeastern edge of the Aïr. It is surrounded by the Ténéré desert . The mountain is located in the Gougaram rural municipality in the Arlit department . It belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Aïr and Ténéré nature reserve . The Mont Gréboun ( 1944 m ) rises southwest of Adrar Bous .

The mountain is elliptical in shape, covering an area of 16 by 10 kilometers. Two fifths of the surface consists of basic rock , which forms an arch-shaped depression that is bordered by monzonites to the west and by alkaline and peralkaline granites to the north and east .

History and culture

The isolated mountain was settled in the Neolithic , as proven by sites with 10,000 year old human traces. Arrowheads and tools were found, as well as Sahara rock carvings , 9500 year old ceramics and a 6000 year old cattle grave.

literature

John Desmond Clark : Adrar Bous. Archeology of a Central Saharan granitic ring complex in Niger (= Studies in Human Sciences . No. 170 ). Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren 2008, ISBN 978-90-74752-43-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Harald A. Friedl: The justifiability of ethnotourism using the example of the Tuareg of the Agadez region, Republic of Niger (West Africa) - An evaluation from the perspective of applied tourism ethics. Dissertation . Karl Franzens University Graz, Graz 2005, p. 220 .
^ Réserves naturelles de l'Aïr et du Ténéré. Carte des limites de la reserve (en vert). UNESCO Center du patrimoine mondial, accessed March 19, 2013 .
↑ D. Demaiffe, C. Moreau, WL Brown: Ring-Complexes of the Ofoud-Type in Aïr, Niger: A new Anorogenic-Type Anorthosite Association . In: AB Kampunzu, RT Lubala (Ed.): Magmatism in Extensional Structural Settings. The Phanerozoic African Plate . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 978-3-642-73968-2 , pp. 353 .
↑ Boubé Gado : Paléoenvironnements et occupation humaine des temps préhistoriques à l'epoque contemporaine . In: Franck Giazzi (ed.): La Réserve Naturelle Nationale de l'Aïr et du Ténéré (Niger). The connaissance des éléments du milieu naturel et humain dans le cadre d'orientations pour un aménagement et une conservation durables. Analysis descriptive . Union Internationale pour la conservation de la nature et de ses ressources, Gland 1996, ISBN 2-8317-0249-6 , p. 263 .
↑ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Niger . Petit Futé, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 191 .

[Friedl_S220-1] Harald A. Friedl: The justifiability of ethnotourism using the example of the Tuareg of the Agadez region, Republic of Niger (West Africa) - An evaluation from the perspective of applied tourism ethics. Dissertation . Karl Franzens University Graz, Graz 2005, p. 220 .

[2] Réserves naturelles de l'Aïr et du Ténéré. Carte des limites de la reserve (en vert). UNESCO Center du patrimoine mondial, accessed March 19, 2013 .

[3] D. Demaiffe, C. Moreau, WL Brown: Ring-Complexes of the Ofoud-Type in Aïr, Niger: A new Anorogenic-Type Anorthosite Association . In: AB Kampunzu, RT Lubala (Ed.): Magmatism in Extensional Structural Settings. The Phanerozoic African Plate . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 978-3-642-73968-2 , pp. 353 .

[4] Boubé Gado : Paléoenvironnements et occupation humaine des temps préhistoriques à l'epoque contemporaine . In: Franck Giazzi (ed.): La Réserve Naturelle Nationale de l'Aïr et du Ténéré (Niger). The connaissance des éléments du milieu naturel et humain dans le cadre d'orientations pour un aménagement et une conservation durables. Analysis descriptive . Union Internationale pour la conservation de la nature et de ses ressources, Gland 1996, ISBN 2-8317-0249-6 , p. 263 .

[5] Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Niger . Petit Futé, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 191 .