Photos: Ancient rock art of Southern Africa

By Laura Geggel
published

Ultimate herd

botswana rock art

(Image credit: Adelphine Bonneau)

A panel of paintings showing humans herding animals in South Africa.

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White and red

botswana rock art

(Image credit: Adelphine Bonneau)

A rock art painting of an eland from Phuthiatsana Valley in Lesotho.

Later Stone Age

botswana rock art

(Image credit: Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd.)

An example of a fine-line painting from the later Stone Age.

Humans and elands

botswana rock art

(Image credit: Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd.)

These paintings of human figures and an eland are from the Maclear District in South Africa.

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Laura Geggel
Laura Geggel
Editor

Laura is the archaeology/history and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including archaeology and paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.