The animal footprint carvings you can find in the Doro Nawas Mountains of western Namibia are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.
are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.
A team from the Heinrich Barth Institute and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, worked with Indigenous tracking experts from theFor more than 90 percent of them, Indigenous experts could identify the species, sex, age group, and even which leg the carving was from. It's like a wildlife compendium, written in rock.
One idea is that they could have been used as a teaching aid. However, the locations of some of the engravings, the height at which they're placed, and the general darkness of the caves mean they wouldn't make ideal classrooms. The researchers couldn't come up with a suitable hypothesis that completely made sense for these rock carvings.can be vital in unlocking the secrets found in archaeological digs.
All these discoveries are made possible because of the accuracy of the art itself – and the local expertise deployed to catalog it., beginning some 50,000 years ago. While some of them are records of animals that still inhabit the region, others are no longer there, giving researchers an indication of how the climate of the area may have changed over time.
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