ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the rock art that the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area (LScA), has so far been explained only in terms of wide-ranging features in Khoisan ethnography. Another widespread feature of southern African forager rock art is local emphasis upon a particular animal. In other words, a more focused ethnographic model would hold the potential to explain diversity in southern African forager rock art. To determine whether this is indeed the case, we need to examine the question of the authorship of the forager art at Tsodilo Hills. The existence of significant numbers of images of aprons and loincloths in the engravings of parts of southern Africa raises questions about the authorship of the engravings. It goes some way to understanding some of the important differences among southern African paintings and engravings. The recognition that a diversity of peoples produced rock art opens up exciting prospects for the study of their interactions and of the flow and reshaping of particular cosmologies.
