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A bit of history
France and South Africa are two regions of primary importance in the field of Prehistoric art and since 1929, several major scientific exchanges have taken place that associated French and South-African rock art research teams. Unfortunately, these in-depth interactions were stopped during the Apartheid period and over the past years, very complementary approaches developed in the two countries. In South Africa, ethnological evidences based on indigenous knowledge led to impressive results regarding rock art interpretation. In France, where such evidences are forever lost, early developments included archaeological excavations and material analyses of the figures themselves. Over the past ten years, following the end of the Apartheid regime, teams from the two countries started new joint projects and members of all the participating institutions have worked together at various occasions in the process, paving the way for a new fruitful Franco- South-African collaboration era. | | | | |  |
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