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The San rock painting from "the upper cave at Mangolong", Lesotho

Pieter Jolly

South African archaeological bulletin, 2006-01, Vol.61 (183), p.68-75 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The San rock painting from "the upper cave at Mangolong", Lesotho
Autor: Pieter Jolly
Assuntos: Agropastoral systems ; Art, San ; Bantu-speaking peoples ; Cave paintings ; Rock paintings ; San (African people)
É parte de: South African archaeological bulletin, 2006-01, Vol.61 (183), p.68-75
Notas: South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 183, 2006: 68-75
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Descrição: A San rock painting, described as coming from "the upper cave at Mangolong", Lesotho, was copied by Joseph Orpen in the early 1870s. It was commented upon by two San people - one from the Maloti of Lesotho and one from the Northern Cape of South Africa. This article builds on earlier research to investigate whether the five people portrayed in the upper Mangolong painting are San, Bantu-speaking agropastoralists, San influenced by the cultures of Bantu-speaking agropastoralists, or both San and Bantu-speaking agropastoralists. It is argued, from an examination of San paintings and the ethnography, and from analysis of the dress and weaponry associated with the people depicted in the upper Mangolong painting, that these people probably represent Bantu-speaking agropastoralists and/or San influenced by the cultures of Bantu-speaking agropastoralists, engaged in an essentially Bantu-speaking agropastoralists' rite - which may have been connected with initiation.

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