The Tellem were the people who inhabited the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali. The Dogon people migrated to the escarpment region around the 14th century. The Tellem were pygmies or `small red people` who built dwellings around the base of the escarpment as well as directly into the cliff-face. Many of these structures are still visible in the area.....
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(from the article `art, African`) ...to survive (three have been dated by carbon-14 to the 15th–17th centuries ). They were found in caves in the Bandiagara escarpment. The Dogon ...
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The Tellem were a people of what is now Mali in West Africa. They disappeared during the 16th century
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