San Rock Art (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) by J. David Lewis-Williams

By J. David Lewis-Williams

San rock work, scattered over the diversity of southern Africa, are thought of via many to be the very earliest examples of representational artwork. There are as many as 15,000 recognized rock paintings websites, created over the process millions of years up till the 19th century. there are probably simply as many nonetheless anticipating discovery.

Taking as his place to begin the marvelous Linton panel within the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape city, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the creative and cultural importance of rock paintings and the way this paintings sheds mild on how San image-makers conceived their global. It additionally info the eu come across with rock artwork in addition to the contentious eu interplay with the artists’ descendants, the modern San people.

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