1. SOUTH AFRICAN ENGRAVINGS AND
ROCK ART
By: Amber Meyer

2. RESEARCH PROCESS
 African Cuisine
 Not enough information
 Rock Art and Engravings
 Looked interesting
 Never heard of it
 Sources
 Internet Sources and Databases

3.  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.

4. MAJOR POINTS
 Rock art
 Engravings
 San tribes
 Trance dance
 Removal of the art

5. 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, featu
res, and body parts

6. ENGRAVINGS
 Incised or hammered
art into rocks or
boulders
 More animals
 Hard objects were
used for engravings

7. 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

8. TRANCE DANCE
 Curing
 Rain dance
 Helped seek game

9. REMOVING
 Ethically thought
practice
 Mapping, photographin
g, and tracing sites
 Before, during, and
after
 Redrawing removed
pieces
 Don’t hurt the art

10. EXAMPLES
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNuT-
lw73s&feature=related

11. 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.