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Les porcs-épics sont des rongeurs caractérisés par une robe pleine de piquants et des mœurs nocturnes. Ils sont classés au sein de deux familles : les Hystricidae, c'est-à-dire les porcs-épics de l' Ancien Monde, et les Erethizontidae, c'est-à-dire ceux du Nouveau Monde.
Aug 18, 2023 · Porc-Epic is a cave site (9.574° N, 41.889° E; c. 1450 m above sea level) located on a prominent ridge adjacent to the Babo Terara (Babo Hill) on the southern outskirts of the city of Dire-Dawa, southeastern Ethiopia.
Jun 2, 2017 · When the prehistoric peoples of Ethiopia wanted to make a new cave painting, it appears they knew just where to go: Porc-Epic is a cave that, for 4,500 years, was used to produce ochre, a brownish-yellow pigment often used in prehistoric artwork.
Sep 24, 2023 · Porc-Epic Cave features the largest African collection of ochre dated to the Middle Stone Age in a region with few sites providing information on this key behavioural innovation.
May 24, 2017 · For at least 4,500 years, people returned to this cave, known today as Porc-Epic, covering its walls in symbols and inking their bodies and clothes. Some anthropologists call it the first...
Jul 1, 2006 · The Middle Stone Age (MSA) sediments of Porc-Epic Cave near Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, have produced a large assemblage of archaeofaunal remains dating to the later periods of the Late Pleistocene.
Porc-Epic Cave is a Middle Stone Age site located between the Somali Plateau and Afar Depression. It is also situated two kilometres northeast of Babo Terara and lies three kilometers south of Dire Dawa,Oromia, Ethiopia.
