King's monuments: identifying 'formlings' in southern African San rock paintings.(Research) From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Mguni, Siyakha | COPYRIGHT 2006 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduction

A formling is a particular category of San rock art image that occurs in Zimbabwe in its thousands (Garlake 1990: 17), although a few occur in northern South Africa (Mguni 2002) and some in western Namibia (Mason 1958) (Figures 1 and 2). Some of the finest examples occur in Matopo where there is a correlation between their complexity in terms of care and detail in their execution and central placement in large shelters with deep occupation deposits (Walker 1...

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