# Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in wet phases, later Holocene peoples who left engravings; no town

> Still possible: Hunter-gatherers made pebble tools and Acheulean handaxes from the local quartzite during wet phases of the Pleistocene, later peoples of…

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# Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in wet phases, later Holocene peoples who left engravings; no town

Hunter-gatherers made pebble tools and Acheulean handaxes from the local quartzite during wet phases of the Pleistocene, later peoples of the Holocene left rock engravings, and no one built a town on the structure.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Stone tools concentrated near quartzite outcrops and wadis of the outer ring.
- Holocene traces (engravings, tumuli, scattered finds) without built settlement.
- No occupation in the hyper-arid Last Glacial Maximum.

## What would rule it out

- Excavated architecture or a planned settlement on the structure older than the caravan towns.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[Engravings at Tililit of several styles show wild animals, cattle, horsemen, a chariot and inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVTK1VK8A/engravings-at-tililit-of-several-styles-show-wild-animals)

Suggestive

FOR

[Pre-Acheulean and Acheulean accumulations lie in the outer ring by the wadis and quartzite outcrops](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVSR3W6YJ/pre-acheulean-and-acheulean-accumulations-lie-in-the-outer)

Supported

FOR

[The large tools were made on the spot and concentrated by wind erosion](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVT7V51P5/the-large-tools-were-made-on-the-spot-and-concentrated-by)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Who lived at the Richat Structure, and when?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/questions/QST0DCKRCFJB4FD/who-lived-at-the-richat-structure-and-when)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in wet phases, later Holocene peoples who left engravings; no town [Answer ANS0DCKVGF4H3JW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCKVGF4H3JW
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