A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
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Some of the dances depicted in rock art are just about entertainment, not ritual.
Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
Germany’s genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama has been well documented, but the massacre of the Bushmen from 1912 to 1915 is seldom discussed.
No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.
The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.
Between the 10th and 15th centuries, the gold market boomed, especially in Egypt, Persia, India and China. Southern Africa played a crucial role in meeting demand.
The Kurukop echo amplifies a mythological story from the Nama Karoo region.
The image underscores the depth of indigenous knowledge exemplified by San people.
There are several reasons why ethical conduct in scientific research is so important.
To the ǀXam and San people, being in the world as a person includes “the sky’s things” - an understanding of and deep connection with the cosmos.
Hopefully more curators and custodians of repositories of human skeletal remains will attempt to redress some of the wrongs of the past.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
Changes in southern African rock art reflect the mixing of groups of people after they came into contact with each other.
The medicine container was found in a painted rock shelter. A radio carbon date of the horn container places it at around AD 1461-1630.
The queen of Xhosa music has passed away. She reinvigorated ancient Xhosa cultural traditions through performance and teaching.
A new exhibition in Johannesburg focuses on the beliefs and paintings of the San people.
The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
In several other parts of the world, people used the bones of animals that were important within their respective cultures to make tools.
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Project Manager, International Rock Art Collaboration, Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand