![]() Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein 7: 114-143. 1991. The conservation of rock paintings in Australia and its applicability to South Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein 7: 146-464. 1991. The ethnoarchaeology of Venda-speakers in southern Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 45: 106-111. 1990. Paintings of the extinct blue antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, in the eastern Orange Free State. 1990. Oral traditions, archaeology and the history of Venda mitupo. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 6: 54-61. 1989. Archaeology and early Venda history. South African Archaeological Bulletin 46: 19-24. 1991. Pixe analysis of pre-European pottery from the northern Transvaal and its relevance to the distribution of ceramic styles, social interaction and change. Jacobson, L., Loubser, J., Peisach, M., Pineda, C. Southern African Field Archaeology 1: 54-60. Rescue excavations at Pramberg, Jacobsdal, south-western Orange Free State. He has also published a series of popular rock art tourism articles.īrink, J.S., Dreyer, J.J.B. Jens is experienced in handling public requests and tourism issues. Jens is responsible for all the Rock Art Department collections, including literature, photographic records, historic copies, tracings, redrawings and historic documents. He assists with fieldwork, especially site location, recording and tracing. ![]() After working on the Woodhouse Rock Art Collection at the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Pretoria, Jens moved to the Rock Art Department at the National Museum. He completed a BA Hons in Archaeology at the University of Pretoria in 2001. Jens Kriek BA Hons Kriek is a Research Assistant in the Rock Art Department. Her research focus is initiation rock art in the Limpopo Province, community rock art projects in the Quthing District in Lesotho and the rock art of the Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape. She completed her MA in Archaeology majoring in Rock Art Studies at the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of Witwatersrand in 2004 and shortly thereafter began working at the National Museum. Shiona Moodley MA Moodley is Head of the Rock Art Department. Available at and Museum Scientist and Head of Department Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany. The crocodile motif in the rock art of the Makgabeng Plateau, Limpopo Province, South Africa. This book ultimately unveils the conceptual link between the two traditions of rock art and discusses how the koma is perceived in the construction and expression of a distinct cultural identity. It embodies a symbolic perception that was also of great importance in the struggle of the Hananwa people during the war. By meticulously exploring the secret boy’s initiation rites of the Northern Sotho, this book discusses how, as a painted image, koma operates on a level surpassing other initiation icons. The local inhabitants call this image koma. It is found in association with the older boy’s initiation rock art and the more recent protest imagery painted during the Maleboho war of 1894. Previous research has pointed out two categories of Northern Sotho rock art that have been painted in two different phases yet this motif occurs in both. The book Koma: Expressions of cultural identity investigates a recurring spread-eagled motif found in Northern Sotho rock art in the Makgabeng Plateau, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The mission of the Rock Art Department (RAD) is to locate, record, interpret and manage the diverse rock engraving and rock painting traditions of southern Africa, thereby promoting the re-construction and development of southern African history. Recent investigation into rock art has emphasised the spiritual symbolism inherent in the art and has succeeded in convincing the public to revere both the aesthetic and the spiritual significance of the art. The positive imaging of rock art has served to reinforce the dominant attitude of tolerance and unity in this country. South African rock art research is a sanctuary for critical thinking and also a contentious platform for exemplifying the history of South Africa as a colonial and post-colonial country from a unique perspective. It is important to study and manage all of these rock arts in order to better understand and respect each other and the land we live in. ![]() Southern Africa has many different rock art traditions made by hunter-gatherers, herders and Bantu-speaking farmers. Rock art is an archaeological artefact that tells us about its makers – who they were, when they lived and, most importantly, what they thought. ![]() Rock art is visual imagery painted onto, engraved into or sculpted out of a rock surface.
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