Tsodilo Hills
Picture credit: Joachim Huber
The Tsodilo Hills are one of the most historically significant rock art sites in the world, boasting 500 individual sites representing thousands of years of human habitation. Nobody knows the exact age of the paintings although some are thought to be more than 20 000 years old.
Located in north-west Botswana near the Namibian Border, the Tsodilo Hills are a small area of massive quartzite rock formations that rise from ancient sand dunes to the east and a dry fossil lake bed to the west in the Kalahari Desert. The Hills have provided shelter and other resources to people for over 100,000 years. They retain a remarkable record, in their archaeology, rock art, and continued traditions.
The rock paintings in the picture above are from the walls of the Tsodilo Hills in Botswana, which is home to one of the highest concentrations of rock art in the world. Local communities continue to deeply respect Tsodilo as a place of worship frequented by ancestral spirits.
The site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001.
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