SOUTH AFRICAN ENGRAVINGS AND ROCK

ARTBy: Amber Meyer

RESEARCH PROCESS African Cuisine

Not enough information

Rock Art and Engravings Looked interesting Never heard of it

Sources Internet Sources and Databases

Research Question: How does rock art and engravings relate to the San people?

Thesis Statement: Engravings and rock art helped archeologist find out who the San people really were.

MAJOR POINTS

Rock art

Engravings

San tribes

Trance dance

Removal of the art

ROCK ART Paintings on a rock

surface Latest 27,000 year

ago Recent art

19th century Early 20th century

South Africa is the richest storehouse

Very Detailed Dances, postures,

features, and body parts

ENGRAVINGS Incised or

hammered art into rocks or boulders

More animals

Hard objects were used for engravings

SAN TRIBE Also known as

bushmen South Africa’s oldest

tribe Moved around

chasing game Lived in rock

shelters Majority rock art

made by the San No longer exist

TRANCE DANCE Curing

Rain dance

Helped seek game

REMOVING Ethically thought

practice Mapping,

photographing, and tracing sites

Before, during, and after

Redrawing removed pieces

Don’t hurt the art

EXAMPLES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNuT-lw7

3s&feature=related

WORK CITED Francis, Michael. "Contested Histories: A Critique of Rock Art in the Drakensberg

Mountains." Visual Anthropology 22.4 (2009): 327-343. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Oct. 2011.

Henry, Leila “South African Archaeological Society.” The South African Archaeological Bulletin. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20474945 Vol. 62, No. 185 (Jun., 2007),

pp. 44-48

Paul G. Bahn, J. David Lewis-Williams, Christopher Chippindale, Jarl Nordbladh, Polly Schaafsma, David Frankel "Rock Art"   The Oxford Companion to

Archaeology. Brian M. Fagan, ed., Oxford University Press 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  University of Dubuque.  7 October 2011  <http://www.oxfordreference.com

Lewis-Williams, J. D., and D. G. Pearce. "From generalities to specifics in San rock art." South African Journal of Science 104.11/12 (2008): 428-430. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Oct. 2011.