APAH : Global Prehistory

Apollo 11 stones;

• found in Namibia

• C.25,5000-25,300 B.C.E

• Medium- charcoal, ochre, and white

• Mobile art

• Named after Apollo 11 moon landing

• 7 fragments found

• Found in 1969

• Rock shelter in Southern Africa

• Stone Tools, shell fragment, pigments

• Cave walls later show handprints, zigzags, animal engravings

• Dated by burial level

• Radiocarbon; ~25,5000-25,300 B.C.E

• One of the oldest know artworks in Africa

• Quartzite slabs

• Profile silhouette , slight shading

• Animal figure

  ~ feline-like head

  ~ hind legs resemble human

  ~curved horned (oryx)

  ~therianthrope

• Portable image for nomadic people

• Maybe Ritual, symbolic, or shamic

• Suggests symbolic thought