Adistinctive geometric tradition of rock paintings and engravings has recently been
introduced to rock art studies in southern Africa. The general characteristics and the overall …

Recent decades have seen a flourishing new approach to southern African rock-art that
draws on Khoi-San ethnohistory. It is instructive to see the perceptions of landscape that lie …

The middle Limpopo Valley is best known because it was here that Mapungubwe arose,
southern Africa's first state-level society, appearing around AD 1220. The Mapungubwe …

In the San rock paintings of southern Africa's Central Limpopo Basin, the greater kudu
(Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is the most commonly depicted species-specific antelope …

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 …

My first contact with this extraordinary religious complex on the farms Gestoptefontein and
Driekuil was late in 2004 when I was asked to carry out an archaeological impact …

South of the Sahara, scholars generally agree on the presence of multiple distinct rock art
traditions. Among these are the 'Late White Tradition', consisting of dots made with fingers in …

In southern African San rock art research two approaches to women's and gender issues
have emerged. Broadly speaking, the first of these incorporates women's issues in a …

The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's
social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the …

Certain postures and gestures of the human body recur in fine-line San rock art. Students of
southern African rock art are introduced to a number of classic postures and features of …