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The Materiality of Rock Art and Quartz: a Case Study from Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2013

Jamie Hampson
Jamie Hampson*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, University of Western Australia
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Abstract

A San rock-art site in northeastern South Africa includes several intriguing features, including rubbed patches of pigment and a red line painted on top of a quartz vein. This article interrogates the relationships between hunter-gatherer beliefs, materiality and rock paintings, and suggests that San painters and viewers engaged with the unique Mpumalangan site for specific ritualistic purposes.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , October 2013 , pp. 363 - 372
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2013 

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