This paper discusses and (mainly) illustrates five rock art sites – all with pictographs – near Modderpoort in South Africa. It is also attempted to put the rock art in the proper cultural context with an emphasis on shamanism. All sites are on private land, so please ask permission to visit these sites well in advance.
By Maarten van Hoek
This study deals with the rock art site of Peekaboo, one of the many rock art sites in Salt Creek Canyon, Central Utah, USA. The site not only has layers of interesting pictographs, the spot is also part of a natural landscape that in my opinion is considered by the prehistoric peoples to be gendered. Several natural features very near the rock art site may have been interpreted as male and female.
By Maarten van Hoek
In 2013 Mario Giorgetta, an academic botanist from Switzerland, discovered for the first time a small rock panel with a collection of clearly associated pictographs on a rock cliff in the gorge of the Río Vilama. Mario reported the site to me in 2019 and we agreed to publish a paper describing the panel and its context. This paper comprises two parts. The first part is written by Maarten van Hoek and briefly attempts at interpreting the elements that make up the pictograph scene and the second part is independently written by the discoverer of the pictograph panel at Guatin, Mario Giorgetta.
by Maarten van Hoek and Mario Giorgetta
