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  2. San rock art - Wikipedia

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    Detail of a San rock painting in the Drakensberg. The San, or Bushmen, are indigenous people in Southern Africa particularly in what is now South Africa and Botswana. Their ancient rock paintings and carvings (collectively called rock art) are found in caves and on rock shelters. The artwork depicts non-human beings, hunters, and half-human ...

  3. Stadsaal Caves - Wikipedia

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    The area is notable for rock formations, caves and overhangs formed by erosion of lower layers of the sandstone, as well as prehistoric rock paintings. Stadsaal forms part of the Matjiesrivier Nature Reserve, which was purchased by WWF South Africa in 1995 and is administered by CapeNature.

  4. South African art - Wikipedia

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    South African art is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Archaeologists have discovered two sets of art kits thought to be 100,000 years old at a cave in South Africa.

  5. Elands Bay Cave - Wikipedia

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    Rock paintings at Eland's Bay Cave, South Africa Photo taken in 1979. From left to right, Merrick Posnansky, John Parkington and J. Desmond Clark. Renowned archaeologist John Parkington excavated Elands Bay Cave in the 1970s providing vast information of the cave's inhabitants.

  6. Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre - Wikipedia

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    Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre is a rock engraving site with visitor centre on land owned by the !Xun and Khwe San situated about 16 km from Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. [1] It is a declared Provincial Heritage Site managed by the Northern Cape Rock Art Trust in association with the McGregor Museum .

  7. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric cave painting of animals at Albarracín, Teruel, Spain (rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin) Cave artists use a variety of techniques such as finger tracing, modeling in clay, engravings, bas-relief sculpture, hand stencils, and paintings done in two or three colors. Scholars classify cave art as "Signs" or abstract marks.

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