The thermal responses of rock art pigments: Implications for rock art weathering in southern Africa

Geomorphology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 132-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hall ◽  
Ian Meiklejohn ◽  
Joselito Arocena
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rock Art

Archaeological Evidence of Domestic Sheep in the Namib Desert During the First millennium AD

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kinahan
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Domestic Sheep ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Namib Desert ◽  
Broad Agreement ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Changing Economy ◽  
Fundamental Shift

Bones of domestic sheep dated to the early first millennium AD are described from the Dâures massif in the Namib Desert. The remains confirm earlier investigations which inferred the acquisition of livestock from indirect evidence in the rock art, suggesting a fundamental shift in ritual practice at this time. Dating of the sheep remains is in broad agreement with the dating of other finds in the same area and in southern Africa as a whole. The presence of suspected sheep bone artefacts, possibly used for ritual purposes, draws attention to the importance of livestock as more than a component of diet in the changing economy of hunter-gatherer society.

Rock Art in Southern Africa

1996 ◽  
Vol 275 (5) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Anne Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rock Art

The Hunter and His Art: A Survey of Rock Art in Southern Africa

1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (103/104) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Patricia Vinnicombe ◽  
Ione Rudner ◽  
Jalmar Rudner
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rock Art
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