Le site mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)

Senegambian megaliths as world cultural heritage

“…This choice is arbitrary. The country of megaliths builders measured some 30000 km 2 , with approximately thirty thousand monoliths, one monolith per square kilometre! The ultimate goal is the listing of the whole megalithic zone.…”

“…This interesting development, brought about by the prestigious "World Cultural Heritage", is clearly an insisting invitation for more research to understand the history of this phenomenon as well as its contribution to the formation of the unique Senegambian cultural landscape. 1,2 To investigate 1087 megalithic sites, approximately thirty thousand monoliths, cannot be done in the lifetime of an individual, not even within a generation.…”

“…It requires finding adequate answers to many of the important scientific, cultural, and heritage management issues that will necessarily emerged along the way. These answers are even more challenging when one always has to take into account present-day peoples inhabiting the more than 30,000 km 2 Senegambian megalithic zone ( Figure 2). This heritage is received from ancestors, still very poorly known.…”