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Rock art, dance and ritual: what we learned from paintings in Zimbabwe

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par Joshua Kumbani, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat de Barcelona

Rock paintings are found throughout Zimbabwe. They were made during the last 10,000 years by hunter gatherer groups and later by farming communities.

These came to the attention of the ERC Artsoundscapes project, based in Spain, in 2021. The project brings together experts in archaeology, ethnography, psychology and acoustic engineering to explore how humans understood sound in prehistoric times. Our team has studied some of the rock art of South…

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