Case file · Sacred site
Twyfelfontein rock engravings
At least 2,500 rock engravings at Twyfelfontein in Namibia's Kunene Region record thousands of years of San and later Khoekhoe ritual life; UNESCO listed it in 2007.
2007 CE · -20.59, 14.37 · status: official
The account
Researchers link many images, such as animals with human features and footprints, to shamanic trance experience and initiation rites.