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SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK ART – PART IV
In the neighbourhood of Ficksburg and Clarens, South Africa, are various rock shelters with beautiful rock paintings made by the ancient San People. All those rock art sites are on private land and it is obligatory to get permission from the landowners well in advance in order to visit those sites. Rock art is very vulnerable and is often located in a sacred spot. These sites and many others in southern Africa are of great importance to the San People. Please protect and respect this site and never touch or wet the rock paintings.
Hoekfontein. Very impressive at this site is a panel of human figures dancing. Six of these figures are infibulated (an artistic convention where a bar was drawn across the penis to show the link between hunter and prey). The site also has two very rare ‘palettes’ that the San People used to rub to gain supernatural potency. Please do not touch these palettes (or any other of the images).
Moolmanshoek. A large but shallow rock shelter has a few interesting San rock paintings and a natural cave overlooking a wide valley and the impressive mountains to the north.
Wyndford. A small site with several interesting San rock paintings, including some fish images.
Schaapplaats 1. A large painted cave with San rock paintings. These include images of therianthropes or part-human, part-animal beings that represent San shamans utilising the potency of certain powerful animals whilst in an altered state of consciousness. The last photo shows a sad and shameful attempt to remove one of the rock paintings.
Schaapplaats 2. In the same area my wife Elles and I found a petroglyph site comprising triangular and rectangular motifs. More information in:
http://www.archaeologysa.co.za/images/uploads/vol_21_no_1_1.pdf
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