After six months of lockdown a team from the Human Sciences Department, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, along with Jeremy Hollmann, Research Associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, were excited to be able to get out into the field. On Friday the 25^th September, Ghilraen Laue, Justine Wintjes Mudzunga Munzhedzi and Jeremy Hollmann took a day trip to the Drakensberg to record a new rock art site. The site is situated in a small shelter on the side of a large boulder.

Photo: Mudzunga Munzhedzi.

Although the walk to the site was not far it was steep.

Photo: Justine Wintjes.

Looking closely at the art is important, especially where they are faded.

 

Photo: Justine Wintjes.

Rock art photography is an art in itself and can take hours of looking and shooting.

   

                                                                             

Photos: Mudzunga Munzhedzi.                                    

Some of the images were well preserved with details in white or red still visible.

 

 

Photo: Justine Wintjes.                                                    

Other images were very faded and the programme DStretch was used to make the images clearer. In the original photograph on the left it was not clear what was being depicted, while the enhanced image shows at least three antelope with a possible 4^th antelope in the left top corner.