Teniky

Teniky is a remote site in the sandstone landscape of the Isalo massif in southern Madagascar. Its rock shelters contain rows of niches cut into the stone, together with terraces and worked walls. Charcoal from excavated structures has been dated to roughly the tenth to twelfth centuries. The workmanship has no close parallel elsewhere on Madagascar, leaving a remarkable record of people who shaped the rock of this inland valley long before the better-known kingdoms of the highlands.