Lesson 4: Information from rock paintings

Lesson 4 Information from rock paintings

Define

Rock art: drawings or images made on rocks

Core content

We can obtain information about the hunter-gatherers and shepherds from the Later Stone Age by looking at the rock paintings they made. Rock paintings were their means of communication and by studying these images we can learn something about how they lived.

Study the pictures below:

Image 1.7: The San made various rock art paintings across Southern Africa.