Four hills standing out of the Kalahari with more than 4,500 rock paintings on them, spread over some 500 separate archaeological sites. Some of the art has been dated as early as 24,000 years before present. The red paintings are attributed to San people and the white ones to Bantu peoples, so what is on this rock is the record of two traditions on the same stone across an enormous span of time. The hills are the Male, the highest at 1,400 metres, the Female, the Child, and a fourth unnamed knoll, and they are still sacred ground to people living around them. UNESCO listed the site in 2001 for exactly that: living religious significance plus an unbroken record of human settlement. Ngamiland, about 40 km from Shakawe.
Ngamiland, Botswana
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