The Atlas. An Introduction

This chapter introduces the full catalog of known rock art sites in the Tadrart Acacus. It collates decades of research in the region and proposes a synthesis of the numerous and heterogeneous sets of data recorded from 1955 to 2011. The Atlas entries contain a brief description and some general information about the artworks and their contexts, plus a selection of images. The Atlas represents a key tool to address the main issues of Saharan prehistoric art such as research, cultural heritage resource management, and dissemination.