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Cave paintings in South Africa · Mysteria

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Cave paintings in South Africa

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🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art

Drakensberg uKhahlamba Rock Art

Later Stone Age ~4000 BP–1800 CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer

35,000 San paintings in 600 Drakensberg shelters - shamanic eland dance archive.