The San rock art of the Drakensberg
- Date of account
- Long sequence, mainly Later Stone Age to historic periods
- Location
- Drakensberg and Maloti mountains
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The paintings and engravings of the Drakensberg-Maloti region form a large, long-lived corpus associated principally with San hunter-gatherer communities. Interpretations by scholars including David Lewis-Williams have emphasized shamanic experience, altered states and social symbolism, while other researchers stress local histories, colonial encounters, gender, landscape and the limits of generalized ethnographic analogy. This is a strong comparison lead because imagery, trance theory and archaeological context can be evaluated together. The art’s chronology and authorship are unevenly established across individual shelters.
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