Off the beaten track, a gallery for ancient art

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 11, 2005| Author: Rob Nixon | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

02-11-2005

I stared in reverie at the 3,000-year-old ocher hand, no larger than a child's, imprinted on the cave wall. South Africa's first inhabitants, the San (or bushmen), didn't view rock as a solid surface; their shamanic artists marked with reddish handprints the so-called energy points, places where they believed one could travel through a cave wall's illusory solidity. This hand looked so luminously fresh, so bright with trust, that ...

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