Question
Slabs of this material engraved with cross-hatching from Blombos Cave’s Still Bay deposits may represent abstract art from over 75,000 years ago. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this pigment that was mined at Ngwenya. Diepkloof (“DEEP-kluff”) Rock Shelter and Wonderwerk (“VOON-dair-vairk”) Cave contained a red, hematite-rich form of this pigment used in many Paleolithic artworks.
ANSWER: ochre [or ocher; accept red ochre; prompt on iron oxides, iron(III) oxide, ferric oxide, or Fe2O3]
[10h] Animals etched with ochre and charcoal on quartzite fragments in this cave are among the oldest African art mobilier. W. E. Wendt named this Namibian cave for its discovery in 1969.
ANSWER: Apollo 11 Cave [or Apollo-11-Höhle]
[10e] Patricia Vinnicombe’s People of the Eland documented this cultural group’s sparkling ochre rock art in the Drakensberg. An obsolete family grouped the click languages of these hunter-gatherers and Khoi pastoralists.
ANSWER: San peoples [or Sho or Sākhoen or Sonqua; accept Khoisan languages; accept Bushmen, Bushman, Boesmans, Boschjesmens, Basarwa, or Mosarwa; accept !Kung, ǃXuun, ǂXʼaoǁʼaen, Juǀʼhoansi, Juǀ’hoan, Ju/wasi, Ju/twasi, Zhu, Dzu, ǂKhomani, /Xam, ǂAakhoe, Haiǁom, ǃXoon, ǃXoongakem, ʼNǀohan, Nǀumde, Naro, NcoaKhoe, Gǀui, or Gǁana]
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