ROCK - PAINTINGS AT TWYFELFONTEIN

Twyfelfontein is one of few places where rock paintings occur together with engravings. There are at least 14 sites in the area where paintings are found. These paintings are often very vulnerable, so please do NOT touch them or wet them. The first picture shows the figure of a walking human on the vertical wall of a rock shelter on the southern habitation plain above the spring at Twyfelfontein. It faces a heavily engraved vertical rock surface with delicately executed animals and two rows of cupules. There are more fainter paintings on the other side of the painted rock shelter. The SECOND photo shows the faint paintings of a human figure with raised arms that has been superimposed by two white animals. This site is quite some distance from the spring. On the same panel are more white animals and a red painting of a giraffe, but also some very delicate engravings of animals. When you surfed from the BRADSHAW FOUNDATION website to this webpage and if you want to continue reading Sven Ouzman's Site Report, please close this window.

On the larger, northern habitation plain above the spring at Twyfelfontein is a large rock shelter situated at its southern edge. It has a large number of rather well preserved rock paintings of which a number is illustrated here. The first photo shows the well-known painting of a seated figure, known as the 'tailor'. Just below the 'tailor' and on a steeply overhanging rock surface is a row of human figures that seem to be marching. The second photo shows a rare ensemble where a giraffe has been painted over with the figure of an archer. And the last figure shows another archer in a seated position on the same surface. Notice the infibulated penis.

Another rock art site site outside the protected area has a large number of rock paintings, mainly of human beings. Engravings also occur at this site. The first photo shows two human figures painted on top of each other, whereas the second photo shows a row of human figures, painted rather closely together and partially overlapping. The third photo shows part of a human figure at the same site.

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