Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre Kimberley - Northern Cape
The Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre and San Craft shop is located on the outskirts of Kimberley. KhoiSan people and researchers are involved in conserving the engravings at this site. More than 400 engravings are spread over this small sacred hill. A visit here can be a deeply moving experience and also very informative. The site, surrounded by land owned by the !Xun and Khwe San people, is on a servitude set aside for rock art conservation and public access.
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre
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Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre is a rock engraving site with visitor centre on land owned by the !Xun and Khwe San situated about 16 km from Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.It is a declared Provincial Heritage Site managed by the Northern Cape Rock Art Trust in association with the McGregor Museum.The engravings exemplify one of the forms often referred to as ‘Bushman rock art’ – or Khoe-San rock art – with the rock paintings of the Drakensberg, Cederberg and other regions of South Africa being generally better known occurrences.Differing in technique, the engravings have many features in common with rock paintings.
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Diamond Fields Tourism - South Africa Travel Channel 24
The Frances Baard district has a climate favourable for outdoor living with a great number of sunny days throughout the year. This creates the right environment for the region to produce quality export fruit, vegetables and olives. Kimberley is a unique, value for money destination-, a perfect family destination with many educational things to see and do. Guided underground tours of an operational De Beers diamond mine; the old fashioned alluvial and diamond diggings; the Big Hole and Open Mine Museum village; follow the N12 Anglo- Boer War battlefield route from Kimberley and experience the most exciting Anglo-Boer War battlefields in South Africa, including the famous battlefields of Magersfontein and Paardeberg; the Kimberley Ghost Trail is a superb guided tour of the haunted corners of Kimberley; Township Wonders - the famous Township Number Two, one of the oldest such locations or townships in South Africa, re-named Galeshewe after Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe. It gives visitors a glimpse of everyday-life in a township with traditional food and lovely African jazz music that enhances the ambience of a truly wonderful township experience.. The Kimberley Archaeology Tour uncovers a wealth of significant rock art and archaeological sites at the McGregor Museum. It displays the last 3 million years of Northern Cape history through various unique stone age and rock engraving sites, including the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre.
Kimberley with FlyAirlink.
I visited Kimberley with Fly Airlink taking two full days to explore the rich offerings of this area that saw prospectors descend on it to stake their claims with dreams of striking it rich, after diamonds were first discovered here in 1871.
Starting with The Big Hole Complex where I peered into the deepest man made crater in the world, experienced a trip deep into a mine and walked about the old town that still pulsates to the rhythms of a bygone era. Then a visit to the 2nd oldest pup in South Africa, finding street art, time at the McGregor Museum, St Cyprian's Cathedral and a walk across the rail tracks to the cracked muddy shores of Kamfers Dam to see the flamingoes. Taking to the surrounds we visited the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre where there are as many as 400 engravings and where the history of the !Xun and Khwe San people who now own the land, brings the story full circle. As well as the site where the Battle of Magersfontein took place on 11 December 1899, a significant moment in the Anglo Boer war that saw a victory for the Burghers. A city rich in offerings and well worth time enough to explore at leisure.
With thanks to FlyAirlink for the opportunity to #DiscoverKimberley.
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Petroglyph Sites north of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa
SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK ART - PART VI
This video shows five petroglyph sites to the NW and N of Kimberley, South Africa (a video of a sixth site, Klipfontein, is available in a separate film on YouTube). Rock art is very vulnerable and is often located in a sacred spot. These sites and many others in southern Africa are of great importance to the San People. Please protect and respect this site and never touch the rock art. All those rock art sites are on private land and it is obligatory to get permission from the landowners well in advance in order to visit those sites.
Wildebeest Kuil. Over 300 San and Khoe petroglyphs, including buck spoor, dancing human figures, elephant, geometric motifs, goat-like animals, and incised horse from more recent times, a lion with two tails, rhinoceros and wildebeest. Protected site under guardianship of the San with an excellent Visitor Centre.
Pniel. Over 130 San petroglyphs concentrated on the west facing slopes of a low hillock on the east bank of the Vaal River, including four fine giraffe images (three shown in this video).
Doornhoek. About 30 San petroglyphs concentrated on a low hillock. Special is the petroglyph of a laughing or howling jackal apparently standing on a full moon.
Schoolplatz. Over 540 San and Khoe petroglyphs scattered on the east bank of the Vaal River. Elephant, geometric motifs, sun-motifs, giraffe, human figures, rhino, spirit-world animals and weird beasts.
Stowlands. Over 300 San and Khoe petroglyphs scattered on a low hillock overlooking the Vaal River to the west. Among the images are elephant, abstract motifs, solar symbols, giraffe, human figures, rhino, spirit-world animals and fantastic animals (for instance the 'rhinopotamus'). Look out for the hermaphrodites (on the site). Some images are old and very hard to see (especially the 'smiling' hippopotamus).
WILDEBEESTKUIL SAN PEOPLE MR SEGAMI
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This impressionistic video shows some of the rock art of South Africa at a place called Wildebeest Kuil in Northern Cape Province. My friend and colleague Rob Milne introduced me to this site during my visit to South Africa in September of 2009. The San (Bushmen) and the Khoikhoi (formerly called the Hottentots) made these petroglyphs (rock engravings) as much as 10,000 years ago on the andesite boulders strewn across a low hill (koppie) that is south of the Kalahari Desert near the city of Kimberley. For more on South African rock art, read a chapter in my book The Kivas of Heaven. Go to: theorionzone.com .
CRACKING THE CODE - MAKING MEANING OF DRIEKOPSEILAND
Driekopseiland, a glaciated riverbed with almost 4000 enigmatic rock engravings, some dating back to the Later Stone Age. Not far from Kimberley, South Africa. A documentary by Carla Henriët as part of her masters degree in documentary video at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Supervisor: Prof. Attie Gerber - Attie.Gerber@nwu.ac.za
How Many Wild Animals Can You See in ONE Afternoon in South Africa - Mokala National Park
We went for an afternoon drive in the Mokala National Park just outside of Kimberley and we were amazed about all the animals we encountered.
Taung Skull Orientation
Traces of human origin in Taung( Norlim/Buxton), DR. Ruth S. Mompati District Municipality in North West/Bokone Bophirima Province.
BUSHMAN KHWE LEADER WENTZEL KATJARA DRIEKOPSEILAND WONDERFUL PEOPLE OF THE NORTHERN CAPE
Traditional Khwe leader shares an Indigenous interpretation of ancient rock engravings at Driekopseiland South Africa
San Rockengravings
A photo edit of the San Rockengravings we went to in Wildebeestkuil and the long road there.
music by: Bonobo -Ketto
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San pupils learn about their history back to 1900's
San pupils from !Xunkhwesa Combined School at Platfontein near Kimberley took a step back in time. Learning about their roots, ancient art and rituals, and turbulent times in the 1900's. The children were treated to time travel activities.
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