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Natural region in Mauritania
Aoukar
عوكر
Location of the Aoukar basin in Mauritania
Country Mauritania Elevation
240 m (790 ft )
Aoukar or Erg Aoukar [1] Arabic : عوكر ) is a geological depression area of south eastern Mauritania . It is located between Kiffa and Néma , south of the Tagant Plateau . The region is also referred to as Hodh or El Hodh [5] Arabic : الحوض , lit. Basin ').[3]
The Aoukar basin is a dry natural region of sand dunes and salt pans fringed by escarpments on its northern and eastern sides.
History
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There was once vast reed -covered endorheic lake in the area, but it no longer exists. The former lake of Aoukar extended towards the area of Tichit , bordering the southern edge of the Tagant Plateau . Below the cliffs (dhars) facing the extinct lake remains of about 400 villages have been found.[6] [7]
An 1861 German map displaying the unoccupied Hodh amid the Toucouleur Empire of Umar Tall .
From east to west, Dhar Néma , Dhar Walata , Dhar Tichitt , and Dhar Tagant form a semicircular shape around the Hodh/Aoukar Depression, which, prior to 4000 BCE, was an area with lakes of considerable size, and, after 1000 BCE, was an area that had become increasingly dried.[8] [8] Tichitt Tradition of eastern Mauritania dates from 2200 BCE[9] [10] [11] [12]
Previously administered as part of French Sudan (present-day Mali ), the area was transferred to French Mauritania in 1944, apparently on a whim of the colonial governor Laigret .[13] [14] [15]
Aoukar/Hodh gave its name to the modern Mauritanian regions of Hodh Ech Chargui and Hodh El Gharbi .
A view of the dunes in the Aoukar
Ecology
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The Aoukar is one of the few natural refuges for the addax , a critically endangered kind of antelope which lives in the region.[16]
See also
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References
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^ a b Barth, Henry . Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849–1855 , Vol. 3, pp. 712 ff.
^ Ould-Mey, Mohameden. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania , p. 66.Lanham ), 1996. Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
^ Also encountered as Hōdh , Ḥawḍ ,[2] Hódh ,[3] al-Hodh .[4]
^ "Tichit - The living ghost of yesterday's glory" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-08-13 .
^ G. Marcus and B. de Valicourt (2000). Mauritanie, p. 10
^ a b MacDonald, Kevin C.; Vernet, Robert; Martinón-Torres, Marcos; Fuller, Dorian Q. (April 2009). "Dhar Néma: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa . 44 1 ): 3–48. doi :10.1080/00671990902811330 .
^ McDougall, E. Ann (2019). "Saharan Peoples and Societies". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History . doi :10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.285 . ISBN 978-0-19-027773-4
^ Holl, Augustin F.C. (25 June 2009). "Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)" . Comptes Rendus. Géoscience . 341 (8–9): 703–712. Bibcode :2009CRGeo.341..703H . doi :10.1016/j.crte.2009.04.005 .
^ MacDonald, K.; Vernet, R. (2007). Early domesticated pearl millet in Dhar Nema (Mauritania): evidence of crop processing waste as ceramic temper ISBN 9789077922309
^ Kay, Andrea U. (2019). "Diversification, Intensification and Specialization: Changing Land Use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500" . Journal of World Prehistory . 32 2 ): 179–228. doi :10.1007/s10963-019-09131-2 hdl :10230/44475 S2CID 134223231 .
^ Lalonde, Suzanne. Determining Boundaries in a Conflicted World: The Role of Uti Possidetis, p. 109.
^ Touval, Saadia. The Boundary Politics of Independent Africa , p. 247ISBN 1583484221 . Accessed 18 Apr 2014.
^ Morgan, William & al. West Africa , pp. 254 ff. Methuen, 1973.
^ Richard Trillo, The Rough Guide to West Africa
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