karoo rock engravings by Parkington, John, and David Morris (text) and Neil Rusch (photographs)

(Clanwilliam: Living Landscape Project, 2008) 9790620406499. 210 x 246 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 127; lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, period photographs of archaelogical field trips, maps, line drawings, etc. Fine condition. "The karoo is an ancient landform with characteristic rock strata, topography, vegetation and climate. Named from the languages of the pre-colonial hunter gatherers and pastoralists, this arid region boasts a rich archaeological record of tens of millions of stone artefacts and perhaps a million engraved images, sometimes called petroglyphs. ... Here we describe the contexts and contents of this rock art and link engraving to the lives and belief systems of the engravers." .