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The Daureb or Brandberg (Afrikaans and German for “burning mountain”), on the edge of the Namib desert in Namibia is world famous for the many thousands of rock paintings, among them the probably best- known rock painting in Africa, the so-called “White Lady”.
Prehistoric rock art is a worldwide phenomenon with a history going back
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tens of thousands of years. For this reason, the forms and locations with which rock painting is associated similarly show wide variation. However, they all have one principle in common that almost always holds good: prehistoric artists did not mix the two fundamental techniques for the production of these paintings. Either they used painting with one or more colours or they engraved the rock
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