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We will visit rock art sites in the Pakhuis Pass. These paintings offer intriguing insights into San motives and meanings and add to our understanding of the relationship between painting and landscape in the San mind. We highlight the images of social and life history occasions of the hunter gatherer painters and show how making painted places out of previously undifferentiated rocky locations enabled the artists to remember and celebrate who they were as well as their sense of belonging in their painted landscape.
Bio:John Parkington is Emeritus Professor and a Senior Research Scholar in the Archaeology Department at the University of Cape Town. He has been excavating and studying the
We will visit rock art sites in the Pakhuis Pass. These paintings offer intriguing insights into San motives and meanings and add to our understanding of the relationship between painting and landscape in the San mind. We highlight the images of social and life history occasions of the hunter gatherer painters and show how making painted places out of previously undifferentiated rocky locations enabled the artists to remember and celebrate who they were as well as their sense of belonging in their painted landscape.
