Rock Art in Africa Map of North Africa
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Rock Art in Africa
Map of North Africa
Engravings and paintings on rock surfaces found in the Tassili Plateau, Algeria And in the Namib Desert of southern Africa. Well over 30, 000 sites have been discovered Rock Art indicates that there has been human habitation in the Sahara from 8000 BP Domestication of Animal and sedentary lifestyle
Paintings and Engravings in the Sahara are categorized into 4 periods: 1. Archaic/ Bubalous Period (8000 -7000 BP) Characteristics: a) Large scale animals incised and engraved on rock surfaces b) Naturalistic representations of animals: elephants, buffalo, hippopotamuses, giraffe, antelopes c) many of the animals are now extinct 2. Pastoral Period (6000 -2200 BP) Characteristics: a) smaller scale paintings done with red and white pigments b) Depictions of cattle with humans c) Fairly accurate details in terms of proportions, colors etc d) Depiction of humans engaged in different activities including sports and warfare
3. Horse Period: 3200 -1200 BP further sub divided into: Horse and Chariot sub-period Characteristics: human figures become bi-triangular Head size shrinks Small weapons and horse drawn chariots appear 4. Camel Period: 2700 BP Characteristics: Quite possibly the most recent period of rock art painted by the present inhabitants of the Sahara a) Horses are depicted with Arabic fittings b) Human figures are very small and depictions of camels are common
Elephant, Rock Engraving, Bubalus/Cattle Period
Super imposition, Elephant and Giraffes, Engraving, Fezan Region, Libya After 8000 BC Appr. 10, 000 BP
Niola Doa (Beautiful Ladies) Chad Republic Pastoral Period Rock engraving, (note the vertical grooves supposedly created in recent times, by women to increase their fertility)
Mother and child scene, Rock painting, Tassili N’Ajer, southern Algeria Pastoralist Period 7000 -4000 BP
Hairdressing in the Akakus Mountains, Libya. The scene reflects the recent lifestyle of modern Fulani peoples who dress their hair in similar manner and may link the Paintings to their ancestors. Pigment on rock, 6000 BP
Ladies on Horseback, Rock Painting, Tassili, Algeria
Two lovers holding hands super imposed on faint but visible images of animals in White pigment, Western Chad Republic
Cattle Rock painting, Cattle Period, Tassili, Southern Algeria, (10, 000 -8, 000 BP)
Figure with mask like head, Rock Painting, Tassili, Southern Algeria (10, 000 -8000 BP)
Faceless figure, Painting, Tassili, Archaic Period
The Great Fishing God of Sefar, Rock painting, Tassili, Algeria, 10, 000 BC
Stylized figures with cattle And horse drawn chariot
Horse-drawn chariot, Painting, Chariot sub period, Tassili, Algeria
Herdsman with cattle Painting, Cattle/Pastoralist Period,
Camel, Painting, Late/Camel Period, Tassili, Algeria
Map of southern Africa
Panoramic view of the Drakensberg mountains
Engravings and paintings are widely distributed throughout southern Africa The oldest painting dates to 28, 000 BP They were created by the San peoples The paintings depict healing ceremonies, visions, and realistic and abstract depictions of animals Characteristics: under water scenes of water buffalo, humans and snakes Visions of shaman or healers Healers in altered states of consciousness Healing rituals still being performed today by the San Peoples
Art mobile—art mobilier, Rock painting, San Peoples, (28, 000 BP)
White lady of Brandberg, Namibia, Southern Africa
White Lady of Brandberg, Dark skin male figure covered with White paint or ostrich egg/pigments, San Painting, Polychrome Namibia
Abstracted figures, San peoples Polychrome Tanzania
Zebra, San Peoples, Polychrome, Zimbabwe
Antelopes, San Painting, Polychrome, South Africa
Battle scene with the British San Painting Polychrome South Africa
Animal scene--Lion, Giraffe, horses, polychrome, South Africa
Bloated Crocodile, Rock Painting, San Peoples, Zimbabwe
Eland Wildebeest Rock Engravings San Peoples, Northern Cape, South Africa
San religious ceremony, Polychrome, South Africa
Dancing Figures, San Peoples, polychrome, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
Drawing after a painting depicting a ritual ceremony ---note the depiction/presence of phospheme
San healing ritual ceremony, early 20 th century
“Recent” San trance ritual ceremony
San healing ritual ceremony
Therianthrope San Peoples
Shaman’s X-ray vision, rock painting, south African
Therianthrope and Eland, San Peoples, Polychrome, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Shaman in Trance, San Painting, Polychrome, Makoni, Zimbabwe
A family of Rhinos, San peoples, Polychrome Botswana, Southern Africa
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