Les monuments funéraires de la zone d’Ihaouhi, Téfedest, Ahaggar : présentation et fouilles

Abstract

The funerary monuments of the Téfedest region are numerous and varied. They are partially described and rarely excavated. In the project entitled “Funerary monuments of the Ahaggar in their chrono-cultural framework”, we have listed and inventoried these monuments. This survey is done not by type of monument but by zone of implantation. This operation, which still ongoing, has been enabled us to refine the geographic distribution of such monuments architecture but also to begin the excavation of some of them. The results presented here concern the monuments excavated in the Ihaouhi area in order to illuminate their mode of construction, the funerary rites and customs of their builders and to situate them in their chronological framework.