Tsodilo

The Tsodilo Hills are a comparatively little organization of quartzite inselbergs located regarding the edge of the Kalahari Desert in the extreme north-west of Botswana, stuffy to the Namibian be unventilated to.  They are residence to one of Africas densest collections of stone art, taking into consideration than some 4,500 paintings in an place of just 10 km2.  Caves and shelters in the hills are thought to have been occupied  perhaps and no-one else occasionally   highly developed than a era of going on to 100,000 years, and the place continues to have important symbolic and religious significance to local communities.

The stone art depicts a variety of subjects, including wild animals, people, cattle and added domestic animals, and various geometric symbols and designs.  Most are painted in red, but there are with a number of groups of white images.  In terms of style and content the art has much in common plus paintings of same age in Zambia and Angola rather than neighbouring Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Its age and extraction is subject to speculation, but probably no more than 2,000 years olden. Cattle were introduced to the place in this area the 6th century AD, and riders upon horses  depicted in some of the white images  were first known here in the 1850s, so establishing a maximum age for some of the paintings.  The geometric images are thought to be nearly 1,000 years very old, and oral evidence suggests that the latest paintings date to the 19th century.

Slideshow of Tsodilo:  The slideshow features a series of photos provided by Bridget Goldsmith and David Trump, showing the landscape and rock art of the area.  There are some striking images of wild animals painted in red hematite, including rhinos, giraffe, oryx and adding together species, as proficiently as various stylised human figures, and symbolic images, some in white.  The pictures have enough child support a enormously colossal desirability of the curt setting, and the to-do of scrambling through the teetotal bush and greater than rock scrambles to discover each organization of paintings.