African Rock Art Collection

               I found this article on African rock art from the British Museum. It is a collective project that is attempting to build a huge collection of rock art from all of the continent. The collection is somewhat in its infancy as they only have the North of Africa put together yet but it is still a massive and impressive collection. Some of the photographs are of not the best quality but I would imagine that some of them came from a slightly less than hospitable location.They have the collection broken down by country and much of the same themes seem to run throughout. I instantly wondered if one could be able to trace the migration and colonization patterns across Africa through the art. One can obviously see the major lifestyles portrayed, like pastoralism and farming but to trace peoples migrations through their art, that would be amazing. This is something I will check back into at a later date as I was really interested in some of the art from the countries, like mali and the congo region, that they have not cataloged as of yet. The project can be found by clicking here: African Rock Art Project.