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SOUTH AFRICAN ENGRAVINGS AND ROCK
ARTBy: Amber Meyer
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RESEARCH PROCESS African Cuisine
Not enough information
Rock Art and Engravings Looked interesting Never heard of it
Sources Internet Sources and Databases
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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.
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MAJOR POINTS
Rock art
Engravings
San tribes
Trance dance
Removal of the art
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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
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ENGRAVINGS Incised or
hammered art into rocks or boulders
More animals
Hard objects were used for engravings
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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
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TRANCE DANCE Curing
Rain dance
Helped seek game
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REMOVING Ethically thought
practice Mapping,
photographing, and tracing sites
Before, during, and after
Redrawing removed pieces
Don’t hurt the art
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EXAMPLES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNuT-lw7
3s&feature=related
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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.