PREHISTORIC ART

1st slide

AFRICA

- The earliest human occupation occurs in Africa, and it is there that we assume art to have originated.

- Human populations were migrating and expanding across the world. By 20,000 B.C.

- The first human artistic representations, markings with ground red ocher, seem to have occurred
about 100,000 B.C. in African rock art.
2nd slide

Apollo 11

ca.25,500–25,300 B.C. Namibia

-The oldest scientifically-dated figurative rock art in Africa.

-1969 Wendt excavated the rock shelter

- Seven stone Fragments

3rd slide

Wonderwerk Caves

ca. 8000 B.C. Northern Cape province, South Africa

- Wonderwerk Cave is located in the plains of northeastern South Africa

-Wonderwerk is one of the locations in the world that has evidence of human occupancy.

- It contains layered dolomitic limestone from the Ghaap Plateau Dolomite Formation

- Wonderwerk – “Miracle”