Cederberg Rock Paintings

"The Cederberg is one of the richest areas of rock art in southern Africa, indeed the world, as measured by the number of painted images per square kilometre."

These Cederberg rock paintings are, as Wilhelm Bleek noted in the late 19th century, about the things that "most deeply moved the Bushman mind." From the current intense interest in rock paintings across the globe, images that have survived the millennia from stone age past continue to move minds. It has become clear that the insights offered to Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd by their /Xam informants have transformed the analysis of painted images from speculation to understanding. Through the dissemination of the written and painted archives, the stories, images and sounds of the /Xam are gradually finding their way back into the minds of Cederberg people.

Publication details: Parkington, J. (First published 2003 and reprinted 2008, 2013, 2021). Cederberg Rock Paintings. Volume 1 in the Follow the San series, hard cover, 128 pages, 210mm x 245mm landscape, colour throughout. ISBN: 978 0 620 556668.