They are the San, hunter-gatherers who are believed ... that most of the rock art remaining in the Drakensberg belong to the last 1,000 years – if not the last few centuries.

In San rock art, the eland is a connecting element. It is the most commonly depicted antelope in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg paintings. It features in several San rituals and was believed to be the ...

Snakes, lions and fish are not uncommon in the art of the Drakensberg Mountains ... of snakes and bees, the San people rarely painted reptiles and insects. Rock art research is among the most ...

With its incredible geologic history, breathtaking landscapes, and wealth of San rock art, the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park was named a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational ...

But in the Drakensberg mountains ... miles of which are designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ancient rock art decorates its caves, baboons caper in its valleys and footpaths thread over ...

Drakensberg. Whatever ... Once the confusion had been cleared up, I showed her a few photocopies of San art I keep to remind myself that I’m not the only one who can’t draw to save his ...

thinks that it is difficult to say for certain whether the rock art depicts a dicynodont. But he agrees that the San probably found inspiration in the region’s fossils. “As someone who loves ...

it could help to explain the imagery in some other San rock art, Benoit concluded. Read the original scholarly article about this research in PLOS ONE. For more on animal depictions in San rock ...

help convey San worldview to rock art researchers. We re-investigated such a site in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountains. It was first described in the 1950s and is recorded as RSA CHI1. At first ...

In San rock art, the eland is a connecting element. It is the most commonly depicted antelope in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg paintings. It features in several San rituals and was believed to be the ...

We re-investigated such a site in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountains ... the light of everything we have learned so far about San rock art. Our re-investigation allowed us to arrive at a ...