Rock Art
The Northern Cave at Chikupo has a short steep and slippery slope on the western...
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The Central cave to the west has a long line of animals painted across it with over 30 images...
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The Southern cave is very easy to enter at ground level under a fence that has been erected to...
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The Western cave also has a mass of paintings, but most are now rather faded and...
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The shelter is easily accessible being about 450 metres from the tarred road down a track which...
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Pink Elephants comprises six faded pink elephants high above an overhanging shelter at the summit...
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I am very grateful to Gary Haynes for letting me quote from his article cited at the end of...
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On the southernmost boulder are four fish and a kudu cow in yellow, whose lower legs were once...
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Glen Norah East – “Bridge paintings”Elizabeth Goodall calls this frieze “...
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Makumbe CavePeter Garlake thinks that the immense Makumbe cave, 100 metres wide by 30 metres deep...
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Although the Chiremba / Epworth balancing rocks are not as extensive as Domboshava, or Ngomakurira...
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Crocodile RockTo the left of the of the two large crocodiles are a line of ten hunters drawn in...
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Background to the rock art in ZimbabweZimbabwe has one of the highest concentrations of rock...
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The term petroglyph is generally used to denote San rock engravings which have been pecked, incised...
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Situated within the Matobo Communal lands, the word ‘Embizeni’ (Place of the Pots) is...
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The great cave of Bambata, a major archaeological site and discovered by Neville Jones in 1917, has...
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The most unusual feature of the shelter is a red and white painted line that emerges from a natural...
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Henry Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil, wrote over six hundred publications illustrating...
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Elizabeth Goodall whose superb paintings of rock sites are kept at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human...
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Top left is the largest camp scene with a many couples accompanied by children, their bags and...
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On the far left of the panel are lines of figures, some carrying heavy sticks on their shoulders, a...
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The paintings are so thickly painted it is quite difficult to disentangle them. Unfortunately...
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The site is within a large domed cave with recesses to the left and right of the main cave and has...
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If there is only the time for half a day’s game drive, then Thetford Game Reserve, which...
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The stiff hike up the adjoining mountain, which is much more arduous than Domboshawa, is well...
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The Monument came under the custodianship of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe in 1936....
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Amongst the more conventional paintings of animals at Zombepata are numerous images of zebra...
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This well-lit cave is situated high up on the steep granite slopes of Inanke Mountain with broad...
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The name Nswatugi means “the place of jumping” as it is believed that Mwari / Mwali (...
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Although the frieze is protected only by a small overhang, this is one of the best sites in...
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The paintings are densely superimposed in this very spacious domed cave. Four large elephants...
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In a 2014 newspaper article Cathy Buckle visited these rock paintings to show them to a foreign...
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(1) Outside the cave two hunters carry a pole whilst two others engage in a stylised fight which...
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