One of the Drakensberg's greatest treasures is cultural. Some 20 000 individual rock paintings have been recorded at 500 different cave and overhang sites between Royal Natal National Park and Bushman's Neck. Subjects range from animals (mainly eland) to humans, therianthropes to ox-wagons and mounted men with rifles. In Ndedema Gorge 3 900 paintings have been recorded at 17 sites. One of them, Sebaayeni Cave, contains 1 146 individual paintings. In the Cathedral Peak- Mdelelelo Wilderness Area there are another 130 sites with a total of over 8 800 individual paintings. Other prime sites include the Main caves in Giant's castle game reserve, Battle Cave in the Injasuti Valley and Game Pass Shelter in the Kamberg Nature Reserve. Ancient rock art sheds light on the trance experiences of Bushman shamans.
Authors
- Country
- South Africa
- Credit Notice
- Reinhardt Hartzenberg / The Media Bank / african.pictures
- Date published
- 10-11-2009
- External ID 1
- APN298181
- Image Number
- APN298181
- Province or State
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Published in
- Giants Castle
