West of the Best
Rock Art and Archaeological Discoveries in the Doro !Nawas Region of Northwest Namibia
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The Northwest of Namibia bears a concentration of rock art that is among the highest in the world. One of the centres is Twyfelfontein, a cluster of sites surrounding a waterhole at the eastern fringe of the Namib Desert, classified as the prime rock engraving site in southern Africa and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Recent prospections in the desert west of Twyfelfontein have resulted in the discovery of engravings and paintings that exceed those at the UNESCO site, both in quantity and quality. Our contribution to this volume in memory of Klavs Randsborg introduces this newly discovered archaeological landscape and discusses the connection between water - a rare commodity in the desert environment - and the rich array of rock art and other archaeological features found here.
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West of the Best
Rock Art and Archaeological Discoveries in the Doro !Nawas Region of Northwest Namibia
In: Acta ArchaeologicaSearch for other papers by Peter Breunig in
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The Northwest of Namibia bears a concentration of rock art that is among the highest in the world. One of the centres is Twyfelfontein, a cluster of sites surrounding a waterhole at the eastern fringe of the Namib Desert, classified as the prime rock engraving site in southern Africa and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Recent prospections in the desert west of Twyfelfontein have resulted in the discovery of engravings and paintings that exceed those at the UNESCO site, both in quantity and quality. Our contribution to this volume in memory of Klavs Randsborg introduces this newly discovered archaeological landscape and discusses the connection between water - a rare commodity in the desert environment - and the rich array of rock art and other archaeological features found here.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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