Full Description
This study of rock paintings, including engraved art objects such as ostrich eggshells ranging from the Upper Palaeolithic to Historic and Late Historic periods throws, light on the ways of life of prehistoric people and provides information on their thoughts and beliefs, society, religion and rituals, art and aesthetic sense, material culture, technology, and economy. It analyses different types of animal figures painted in various colours with or without body decorations, as well as different types of human figures shown in hunting big and small game, fishing and fruit and honey collection, showing what these paintings suggest about the subsistence strategies and celebrations.
