Horn of Africa Worlds: Highlands, Pastoral Landscapes, and Maritime Connections
Horn of Africa; selected Northwestern Horn; Somalia / Somaliland geographic context only context · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Laas Geel: pastoral imagery and shelter sequences

No ancient self-designation is inferred from this research label or modern place name.

The museum presents cattle and human imagery across a shelter landscape, not an ethnic territorial map. Gutherz and colleagues examine the shelter sequence and chronological complications; deposits cannot simply date every painting. Shelter 7 materials and reversed or mixed dates do not establish a single painting episode, people or capital.

Rock-art landscape and shelter context Holocene pastoral imagery; shelter chronology and panel dates are distinct Painted shelters, lithic assemblages and survey histories Hargeisa, Northwestern Horn; Somalia / Somaliland geographic context only: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, private compound, mine or production-work location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Resumen

Hogares, paisajes, trabajo y evidencias

Tierras altas, paisajes pastoriles y conexiones marítimas

Hargeisa is a modern orientation for this selected context, not an ancient capital designation or boundary. Shelter 7 materials and reversed or mixed dates do not establish a single painting episode, people or capital.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Shelter 7 materials and reversed or mixed dates do not establish a single painting episode, people or capital.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; the atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent or membership. Hargeisan is an archaeological research label, not a demonstrated language or living identity. Later research, restoration and heritage events are dated separately in the timeline.

Painted landscape The museum presents cattle and human imagery across a shelter landscape, not an ethnic territorial map.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Dating caution Gutherz and colleagues examine the shelter sequence and chronological complications; deposits cannot simply date every painting.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Regional agency Mire's regional fieldwork places heritage within local knowledge and diverse archaeological settings.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered research, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Pastoral imagery

    Paintings provide evidence of selected visual practices; exact dates and authorship remain qualified.

  2. Earlier background

    The lithic study separates technological questions from the dating of visible art.

  3. Shelter 7 publication

    The assemblage was reassessed with attention to Middle and Late Stone Age classifications.

  4. Regional heritage survey

    Mire published locally informed archaeological research; a survey is not an exhaustive population inventory.

Cultura e idioma

Alimentación, artesanía, trabajo, creencias y trabajo colectivo

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Hargeisan is an archaeological research label, not a demonstrated language or living identity.

Familia lingüística: Language, script, material style, political allegiance, religion and residence are distinct; the selected evidence does not classify every resident.

Research focus: Painted shelters, lithic assemblages and survey histories.

Shelter 7 materials and reversed or mixed dates do not establish a single painting episode, people or capital.

Hargeisan is an archaeological research label, not a demonstrated language or living identity.

No artifact, rock-art, sacred-site, burial or human-remains imagery is reproduced.

DNAGENICS provides AI-assisted, source-checked educational paraphrases. Cited authors, institutions and communities did not author or endorse this atlas. Public availability does not establish cultural consent or permission to reproduce objects, sacred knowledge or human remains. No imagery is reproduced. Specialist and community review is recommended; use the website contact channel for corrections, rights concerns or removal requests.

Guía de investigación con IA

Pregunta sobre este perfil revisado

La guía puede explicar y relacionar hechos que ya aparecen en esta página. No puede buscar en la web abierta, establecer identidad ni ciudadanía, ni evaluar ascendencia o información genética.

Basada en el contenido aprobado del perfil Las citas utilizan los identificadores de fuentes de abajo Sin contexto de cuenta ni de ADN

No introduzcas nombres, datos de contacto, información del árbol genealógico, identificadores de cuenta o kit, ni datos genéticos.

Registro de pruebas

Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer local heritage authorities and custodians, accountable field projects, academic editions and institutional records. Registered sources support brief attributed summaries, not researcher endorsement, restricted knowledge or a reproduction licence.

  1. C1

    Built on diversity: Statehood in Medieval Somaliland (12th–16th centuries AD)

    Jorge de Torres Rodríguez; Anejos de NAILOS 6; author project repository · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020

  2. C2

    Ethiopia: African Rock Art Image Project

    British Museum; TARA research project · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    From section to landscape(s): reconstructions of environmental and landscape changes for the past 8000 years around the site of Wakarida (Ethiopia) using chronostratigraphy

    Ninon Blond and colleagues; BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021

  4. C4

    Beta Samati: discovery and excavation of an Aksumite town

    Michael Harrower and colleagues; Antiquity · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2019

  5. C5

    Bilet and the wider world: new insights into the archaeology of Islam in Tigray

    Julien Loiseau and colleagues; Antiquity · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021

  6. C6

    Rock-cut stratigraphy: sequencing the Lalibela churches

    François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar and colleagues; Antiquity · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2010

  7. C7

    Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2006 inscription; current record consulted 2026-10-20

  8. C8

    Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire

    Sada Mire; African Archaeological Review · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2015

  9. C9

    Piraci czy sułtani? Dahlak Kebir jako ośrodek handlowy i polityczny na Morzu Czerwonym VII–XVI wiek

    University of Warsaw Press; research monograph · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021

  10. C10

    The Gedeo Cultural Landscape

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2023 inscription; current record consulted 2026-10-20

  11. S1

    Laas Geel

    British Museum; African Rock Art Image Project · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  12. S2

    The Hargeisan revisited: Lithic industries from shelter 7 of Laas Geel, Somaliland and the transition between the Middle and Late Stone Age in the Horn of Africa

    Xavier Gutherz and colleagues; Quaternary International · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014

  13. S3

    Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire

    Sada Mire; African Archaeological Review · Original research or institutional heritage account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2015

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026