and anthropomorphic depictions, is found across Mali in areas such as Boucle du Baoulé National Park (Fanfannyégèné), the Dogon Plateau, and along the Niger River Delta (Aire Soroba).

Further excavations at Karkarichinkat Nord (KN05) and Karkarichinkat Sud (KS05) - located in a fossil riverbed roughly 70 km north of Gao - revealed the earliest known evidence in West Africa south of the Sahara for ritual