Some more images from the beautiful Burkina Faso (Tiébélé region) traditional architectures. Round houses, made with mud-bricks, are the most common type.
Curiously, the decorations of the houses strongly recall the portuguese prehistoric schist plaques (image 5) - as well as the angular motifs of megalithic art in the Bend of the Boyne (Ireland) area, or in the NW of Iberia.
The same basic motifs are also found in some of the Near East Neolithic sites...
Entoptic motifs?
Universal signs?
It is curious to note that these motifs could be somehow inspired on (or have some kind of link to) the basketry patterns (image 4). Some Tiébélé houses display also plastic motifs, loke crooks (image 1), breasts, snakes, in bas-relief. All these motifs are present in Alentejan neolithic contexts...
