The Cutting Edge

This book addresses rock engravings on the wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, South Africa. Much of the rock art has been destroyed due to mining activities, with very few records and the largest remaining outcrop is still threatened. The study hopes to bring this situation to the attention of...

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Main Author: Hollmann, Jeremy Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017.
Series:Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Ser.
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300 |a 1 online resource (414 p.). 
490 1 |a Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Ser. ;  |v v.97 
500 |a Description based upon print version of record. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- I Introduction -- 1 What this all means -- 1.1 Understanding the GDC `phenomenon' -- 1.2 The sites -- 1.3 Wonderstone -- 1.4 Archaeology of the GDC -- 1.5 Local history -- 1.6 Authorship and age of the art -- 2 Research context -- 2.1 Authorship -- 2.2 Clothing motifs -- 2.3 Geometric motifs -- 2.4 Landscape -- II The rock art of the GDC -- 3 Gestural markings -- 3.1 Aspects of performance -- 3.2 Rubbing the rocks -- 3.3 Hammering the rocks -- 3.4 Cutting the rocks -- 4 Anthropomorphs and zoomorphs 
505 8 |a 4.1 Khoe-San beliefs and feelings about animals -- 4.2 Anthropomorphic motifs in southern African rock art -- 4.3 Anthropomorphs in the GDC -- 4.4 Zoomorphs in the GDC -- 5 Decorative designs and patterns -- 5.1 Contexts for Khoe-San designs and patterns -- 5.2 Decorative designs and patterns in the GDC -- 5.3 Beaded designs -- 5.4 Painted designs -- 5.5 Tattoos -- 5.6 Patterns on implements, ornaments and other items -- 5.7 Filled recesses and facets -- 6 Ethnography -- 6.1 Leather clothing -- 6.2 Hide preparation -- 6.3 `Listen to the ornaments' -- 7 Depictions of clothing in the GDC 
505 8 |a 7.1 The geometry of clothing motifs -- 7.2 Apron motifs -- 7.3 Karosses -- 7.4 Spread-eagle motifs -- 8 Ornaments and decorations -- 8.1 Beads -- 8.2 Bracelets -- 8.3 Belts -- 8.4 Hair ornaments and headdresses -- 8.5 Necklaces and neck ornaments -- 8.6 A colonial hat -- 8.7 Spiders, or a vanity bag and a tortoiseshell container? -- III Khoe-San womanhood -- 9 Girls' puberty rites -- 9.1 Life in transition -- 9.2 Rites of incorporation -- 9.3 Good and bad luck -- 9.4 Women and water -- IV Back to the hills -- 10 The significance of gestural markings -- 10.1 Clusters of scratches and grooves 
505 8 |a 10.2 Activity and scratch rocks -- 10.3 Sliding into womanhood -- 11 Themes in referential art -- 11.1 Zoomorphs, clothes, ornaments and decorations -- 11.2 Women and rhinoceroses -- 11.3 The story of the blue crane -- 11.4 Eland, facial designs and aprons -- 11.5 Woman and the Rain -- V Conclusion -- 12 The value of the GDC study -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- A A kind of torture: the GDC survey -- A.1 Data collection -- A.2 Mapping the GDC -- A.3 The potential of GIS 
520 |a This book addresses rock engravings on the wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, South Africa. Much of the rock art has been destroyed due to mining activities, with very few records and the largest remaining outcrop is still threatened. The study hopes to bring this situation to the attention of the public and the heritage authorities. 
650 0 |a Kxoe (African people)  |x Antiquities. 
650 0 |a Kxoe (African people)  |x Social life and customs. 
650 0 |a Rock paintings  |x Protection  |z South Africa. 
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776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Hollmann, Jeremy Charles  |t The Cutting Edge: Khoe-San Rock-Markings at the Gestoptefontein-Driekuil Engraving Complex, North West Province, South Africa  |d Oxford : Archaeopress,c2017 
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