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discovered this wonderful rock art. I am producing Giclee prints, so if you are
interested, just send me an email. Enjoy the art and read more about this rich rock
art.
Southern Africa has one of the longest and richest rock-art traditions in the
world. Rock art, including paintings and engravings, is distributed widely over
southern Africa. Evidence from painted stones in a cave deposit in Namibia shows
that an artistic tradition, with the ritual and symbolism that is associated with it,
extends back at least 25,000 years. The earliest evidence so far for engraving is
11,000 years old, but new finds could extend this back as well. The most recent
paintings and engravings may be only 200 years old. It has been suggested that
painting increased concomitant with ritual activities during times of social stress.
The period of contact with European colonists may have been the most recent of
such stimuli. Rock art is studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art
historians from archaeological and ethnographic and artistic perspectives. This
allows researchers access to a range of information on which they can base their
interpretations of meaning.
