Storm Shelter: an important new rock art find in South Africa

Abstract

Two circumstances of southern African San rock art research combine to deepen our understanding of what the images meant to the original makers and viewers — even though the last rock painters died a century or more ago. The two circum- stances that mitigate pessimism are: first, notwithstanding the vast amount of energy that has been expended on search- ing the mountains and plains, new sites are still being found; and, second, re- readings of the nineteenth-century Bleek and Lloyd Collection of San folklore, together with insights deriving from the San who still live in the Kalahari Desert, point to easily missed connections be- tween San beliefs and art. Here, we are principally concerned with the first of these two circumstances — finding 'new' sites — although discovery and under- standing are inseparable: researchers can assess the significance of new discoveries only if they have a conceptual framework into which to fit them.

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