Twyfelfontein area

One of the largest concentrations of petroglyphs on the entire African continent can be found here. Most of them are in a good state of preservation and depict rhinoceroses, elephants, ostriches and giraffes, as well as footprints of men and animals. The site also has six rock shelters decorated with red ochre paintings depicting human figures. The remains found in the two areas of the site date back to the end of the Stone Age. The site forms a coherent ensemble of great size and quality, attesting to the ritual practices of hunter-gatherer populations in this region of Southern Africa for at least twenty centuries. These engravings mainly depict animals, such as ostriches, rhinoceroses, giraffes and elephants; there are also animal footprints and a few human figures.