The so-called 'Rosetta Stone' of San rock art is located at the Game Pass Shelter, where Professor David Lewis-Williams decoded the meaning of the art by studying one panel in particular - the painting of the dying eland and a man apparently holding its tail. The man has hooves like the eland, his hair is standing out like the eland's fur, and his legs are crossed, in imitation of the eland's legs. Both the eland and the man are behaving as if they are dying. The man is a shaman going into trance. He is about to leave this world for the spirit world, and he is taking on the power of the eland. This symbolism focuses on a particular part of the San experience - the spirit world journeys.
Whilst the San of this region are long gone, the ancient powers of the art are far from forgotten: Zulu traditional healers and spiritualists still travel from miles around to draw upon the sacred powers of Game Pass Shelter. And today they are joined by thousand of visitors from around the world. Each makes a personal pilgrimage to this sacred place, just as the San did for millennia before. Game Pass Shelter was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the year 2000.
- The Rock Art of South Africa
- South Africa Rock Art Gallery
- San Rock Art of the Drakensberg
- RARI - Rock Art Research Institute
- ARADA - African Rock Art Digital Archive (formerly SARADA)
- SARAP - Southern African Rock Art Project
- A Map from the Memory of the World
- Early masterpieces: San hunter-gatherer shaded paintings of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg and surrounding areas
- Africa's World Heritage Sites
- Explore Cederberg Rock Art
- A Painted Treasure - San hunter-gatherer visual engagement with Didima Gorge, South Africa
- Beginning of a Rock Art Journey - Recording Paintings in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg 1979 - 1980
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and forager theories of disease in nineteenth century southern Africa, and its implications for understanding images of conflict in San rock art
- Reflecting on the abundance of sheep and baboon paintings in Junction Shelter, Didima Gorge, South Africa
- History debunked: Endeavours in rewriting the San past from the Indigenous rock art archive
- Art and Influence, Presence and Navigation in Southern African Forager Landscapes
- Markwe Cave, Zimbabwe
- Escaped slaves, rock art and resistance in the Cape Colony, South Africa
- Sigubudu: Paintings of people with guns in the northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg
- Glimpses of Stone Age ‘workshops’ - archaeologists shed light on hunter-gatherer toolmaking
- Origins Centre - A Museum in Africa for the People of the World
- Animals in Rock Art
- Rock Art of Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg - San rock art exhibition at the National Museum & Research Center of Altamira
- Reflecting Back: 40 Years Since ‘A Survey of the Rock Art in the Natal Drakensberg’ Project (1978-1981)
- Interview with Dr Ben Smith
