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The Dogon country has many vestiges of ancient habitat from successive periods of occupation. From the ancient Toloy and Tellem, to the Dogon. [6]There is the rocky channel located near Sangha where the remains of the Toloy were found, such as granaries, skeletons, pottery and plants, with a carbon-14 dating of 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso.
The Bandiagara Escarpment (Arabic: منحدرات باندياغارا الصخرية, French: falaise de Bandiagara) is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali.It rises about 500 m (1,600 ft) above the lower sandy flats to the south, and has a length of approximately 150 km (90 mi).
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Tireli on a 1954 US Army map at centre right as "Tiréli (Camp)". Tireli is a village in Dogon country in Mali on the Bandiagara Escarpment in the Bandiagara Cercle. It is located 11 km south-south-west of Sangha and Banani and 28 km east of Bandiagara. [1]
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The commune is known as a centre for Dogon traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Toro So is spoken in the village of Sangha. [2] Most of the ethnographic work by Marcel Griaule was carried out among the Dogon of Sangha.
The region is a melting pot, made up of various ethnic groups which live in harmony with one another. Common languages of the area include Fulani, Dogon, Songhai, Bozo, Bambara and Tamashek. Both the city of Djenné and the Bandiagara Escarpment have been named World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.