Word: bushmen
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...Joao Makuleke and his tribe have reclaimed ancestral land on which they will be allowed to operate tourist lodges in cooperation with the private sector and the park's board. In a similar land-restitution deal in the northwestern Cape's Kalahari Gemsbok Park, descendants of the San, or bushmen, will soon be offering visitors the chance to accompany them on a game trail and learn the secrets of their legendary tracking skills...
...works range in age from the approximately 26,000-year-old paintings in Namibia's Apollo 11 cave (discovered at the time of the Moon mission) to late 19th century Bushmen drawings. "Rock art represents an extraordinarily interesting and valuable heritage," says Neville Agnew, associate program director of the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. "It's a page from the past." The art has "immense" value, says Campbell, not just because of its beauty but because "it comprises much of what we have left of both the creation of art and the development of early beliefs...
Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...
Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...
Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari...