In this paper we examine evidence from rock shelters in the Northern Province that points
towards a complex sequence of interaction between foragers and farmers. Farmers …

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean?
This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in …

Siyakha Mguni's personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto
enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha …

Research in the Northern Province of South Africa has revealed a most surprising new rock
art find: a painting of a camel. This paper investigates how and why a camel came to be …

A new and unusual corpus of rock art, labelled as Type 3 imagery, forms the focal point of
this dissertation. Type 3 art is found at twelve known sites within the region once known as …

Little is known about the rock art of regions outside the more famous ones such as the
Drakensberg and Cederberg. Mpumalanga Province in eastern South Africa is a case in …

The Makgabeng Plateau in South Africa's Limpopo Province contains the largest body of
Bantu-language speakers' rock art in southern Africa. Preliminary studies have identified the …

Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human
experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest argues that archaeologists …

This chapter explores the rock art that the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area (LScA), has so
far been explained only in terms of wide-ranging features in Khoisan ethnography. Another …

Petroglyph sites in the Yinshan and Helanshan ranges were documented during a recent
survey. Archaeological remains indicate that these areas have for millennia been both …