Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Tsodilo' has mentioned 'Cave' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Contents 1 Geography 2 Archaeology 2.1 Rhino Cave 2.2 White Paintings 2.3 Red Paintings 2.4 Depression Rock Shelter Site 2.5 Metallurgy 3 Cultural significance 3.1 Oral Traditions 4 Claim of earliest known ritual 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links | WIKI |
| Rhino Cave[edit] | WIKI |
| Rhino Cave is located at the North end of the Female Hill and has two main walls where paintings are located. | WIKI |
| The white rhino painting (for which the cave is named) is located on the north wall, and is split by another painting of a red giraffe. | WIKI |
| [1] Excavations of the cave floor turned up many lithic materials. | WIKI |
| This cave lacks ostrich egg shell, bone artifacts, pottery or iron, but there were a few mongongo shell fragments found in Later Stone Age layers. | WIKI |
| [1] MSA artifacts from the cave are mostly prepared projectile points. | WIKI |
| The paintings of Rhino Cave are mostly located on the North wall, and have been painted in red or red-orange pigment, excepting the rhino which was painted in white. | WIKI |
| [1] On the opposite wall, the cave is host to grooves and depressions that have been ground into the rock. | WIKI |
| In Rhino Cave, some of the red paintings seem to be older than the white rhino. | WIKI |
| In 2006 the site known as Rhino Cave became prominent in the media when Sheila Coulson of the University of Oslo stated that 70,000-year-old artifacts and a rock resembling a python's head representing the first known human rituals had been discovered. | WIKI |
| She also backed her interpretation of the site as a place of ritual based on other animals portrayed: "In the cave, we find only the San people's three most important animals: the python, the elephant, and the giraffe. | WIKI |
| They respond to Coulson's statement that these are the only paintings in the cave by saying that she has ignored red geometric paintings found on the cave wall. | WIKI |