🇿🇦 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.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Blombos Cave — Middle Stone Age Ochre Workshop
Middle Stone Age (100–70 ka ochre horizon, Still Bay 75 ka) · Homo sapiens Middle Stone Age (Still Bay/Howiesons Poort)
Blombos Cave is the 34 m-apse calcarenite sea-cliff shelter 300 km E of Cape Town where Christopher Henshilwood found 100,000–70,000 BP ochre workshop and earliest abstract engravings.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Drakensberg Main Caves Rock Art
Late Stone Age 3000 BCE–19th c. CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Main Caves – 500+ San (Bushman) paintings in sandstone Game Pass Shelter: 35,000+ individual images (polychrome eland, therianthropes, Rosetta Panel).
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art
Later Stone Age to Colonial ~8000 BP–19th c. · San ( ancestral Bushman) and Khoe
Kimberley andesite engravings with 1,500 eland-rhino figures and living San custodianship.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Cederberg Stadsaal Caves Rock Art
Late Stone Age 10,000 BCE–19th c. CE · San (Khoisan)
Cederberg Stadsaal – Cape Fold Mountains sandstone domes and caves with Late Stone Age San rock art in Stadsaal Caves (Elephant Processional panel, 500–1600 CE), Sevilla Trail 130-site route.