Rock Art of Africa

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San Rock Art
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San rock painting from KwaZulu-Natal. Dancing

women, some wearing tradtional leather "aprons"
and ostrich egg-shell knee bracelets. South Africa.
San rock painting of a band of hunters. KwaZulu-
Natal, South Africa.
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Rock painting from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Antelope-human (therianthrope). In San mythology,
after creation, the animal species differentiated
themselves from humans. This figure may be
carrying a smaller antelope on its back.
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San rock engraving on a boulder from northern Cape

Province, South Africa. Antelopes. The European
couple toward upper left was added later.
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25,000-23,500 B.C.
Zimbabwe, southern Africa
Rock painting from Zimbabwe, southern Africa.
Giraffe. Humans and large herbivores possess an
essential n!ow, which is a vital quality that can be
good (good weather, birth) or bad (bad weather,
death).
 Saharan Rock Art
Bubalus Period (end of 6th -
mid-4th millenium)
Cattle Period (mid-4th to mid-2nd
millenium B.C.)
Horse Period (from ca 1200
B.C.)
The Tazina Style of Algeria-
Morocco
Rock Art of the Upper Brandberg
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Hungorob Gorge
The earliest date for South African
Rock art is 10,000 years ago
the zaamenkomst panel, maclear
district, southern drakensberg
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Saharan rock art
 Bubalus Period (end of 6th - mid-4th
millenium)
3. This engraving of an elephant is from Bardai,
in the eastern Sahara, and it belongs to either
the Bubalus or the Cattle Period. Height 7-8".
The archaeological data is difficult to correlate
with the art work, but human occupation at
Tassili started at least around 5500 B.C., and it
is assumed that the Bubalus Period began not
long thereafter and lasted to ca. 3500 B.C.
 South African Engravings

Four antelope scraped into the brownish-black patina of a

smooth dolerite rock in the northern Karoo, South Africa.
Nama Hut
 South African Paintings

A large panel of eland and human figures overlies earlier paintings

in the upper Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa.
 Niger Engraving

Warriors with double triangle bodies, trilobular heads, next to a

giraffe, in northern Niger.
 Namibian Rock Engravings

A section of a major panel depicts a variety of engraved

animals in various styles, some completed and some
possibly deliberately unfinished. Namibia.
 Libyan Engraving

A huge engraving of a Bubalus (Bubalus antiquus or Syncerus

caffer antiquus) from the Messak, Libya.
 Giant Giraffes

Two huge giraffes are engraved into a sloping slab, the larger one
measuring almost 18 feet (5.4 meters) from hoof to horn.
 Chad Painting

A small painting in red from Ennedi, Chad, of a figure facing

forward, holding a stick in its right hand.
 Chad Painting

A red painting in eastern Chad of a camel with an armed rider

superimposed by a white outline image of another camel.
 Algerian Painting

A hunter with Negroid features, about 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) in

height, holds an arrow in his right hand and a heavy bow in the
left in Tassili n' Agger, Algeria.
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5. San rock painting from KwaZulu-Natal,

South Africa. Figures wearing leather cloaks
(karosses) have concave faces.
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Rock painting from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Two superimposed rheboks, the second with its
head down.
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