Les peintures rupestres de l’abri de Zamla (Jebel Ousselat – Tunisie centrale) : la représentation d’une planimétrie agraire ?

Abstract

On 4 July, 2020, we discovered unpublished paintings in Jebel Ousselat. The toponym of the site is Zamla. The paintings seem to represent topographical elements relating to an agrarian planimetry. The comparison of these paintings with other rock art documents and with the data of the current landscape, analysed alongside data from the local oral tradition, allow us to propose hypotheses on their significance.

Keywords

• Tunisia
• Jebel Ousselat
• rock art
• paintings
• topography
• planimetry