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            Aar I
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            Ameib II
            Site
            Brief description of site: The site is E-facing and on the other side of the Elephant Head Koppie about 200 m up the slope. The paintings are at the foot of dramatic, 30-50 m cliffs. Paintings are on two rock facets, one S-facing and fairly well preserved. The other facet faces east and the paintings are blasted by the sun.
            Brief description of art: A detailed description of south-facing panel is as follows: One large antelope (kudu), stencil-style, in red, with a pronounced camel-like hump. To the right there is a springbok that faces left. To its right is a large, faint-red elephant about 50 cm in length. Two strange anthropomorphic figures, perhaps lying prostrate with legs and arms splayed. Further to the right is a grouping of about 12 canids, one howling? Two running to the left with tails outstretched. Their muzzles are long but quite rectangular-shaped, not tapered as with jackals. Somebody suggested that some of these canids looked like hyenas. Then there is another rock facet about 3 m lower down and to the south. The remains of seven anthropomorphs - 5 pairs of legs and faint heads and then about 75 cm to the right, a head and torso, with what looks like 2 arrows poking out at the right. The seventh figure is to the left of the group of five. It is very faint
            Ameib III
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            Brief description of art: There is a depiction of a buffalo/wildebeest.
            Ameib IV
            Site
            Brief description of art: The paintings are on two facets and not well preserved. You can see some springbok, one has a white face that is still preserved. There are also lots of cores and flakes present.
            Ameib IX
            Site
            Brief description of art: There are just a few images behind the bushes, south-facing and covering about 1 square metre. There is an amazing 'twisted' patterning of 'flecks' similar to those in Zimbabwe. There are also smeared blobs, one of which is clearly human and one single-legged and with a rayed head and a protuberance from the upper back.
            Ameib V
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            Brief description of art: The paintings are along about 4 m of the wall and consist of about 100 paintings of which some are still well-preserved. There are processions of springbok, as well as a depiction of a rhino and a frontal perspective of an antelope. Man on his back with hand to face.
            Ameib VI
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            Brief description of art: There are two possible felines, springbok, rhinoceros with human and 'lines'. There is also a resting kudu. The preservation is only moderate and many paintings are smeared.
            Ameib VII
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            Brief description of art: There are many paintings that are well preserved with a total of about 50 paintings altogether. The most striking are 2, possibly three rhino-human conflations: they have human legs, arms and torsos and enormous rhino heads. The left hand most one carries a bow and hunting bag.
            There is a group of springbok lying down as well as a couple of ostrich. There are three well-preserved giraffe. A row of seven figures, five carrying bows, one carrying a flywhisk. Two figures at right, running toward the group of seven holding the bow with left hand and bow string with right hand. A kudu at top right of procession, and a set of shapes that I could not construe.
            Ameib VIII
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            Brief description of art: There are two large antelope torsos and many human figures. At the right on the big boulder there are three figures carrying short sticks with strings/thongs in their right hands. Below these are three thin figures with long ears. Another figure has its arms raised.
            A large torso has been painted over where the legs may have been. There is also a figure falling backwards about 15 cm long with its head obscured by a white deposit. There are also smeared images.
            There are more interesting images on the northern facet of the rock that we noticed later. There is one figure with quiver filled with what could be flywhisks. There are sitting figures, rather faded some with bows. Painted above a small indentation in the rock. A kudu may be coming out of this indentation. A buffalo or wildebeest head. Three giraffe, one very faded that was in white with the horn knobs and top of head red.
            Ameib XIII
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            Brief description of art: The paintings are spread over about 15 m of the rock. It is an important site and much of the imagery is quite faded but the detail is still recoverable by tracing. There are many hundreds of images I would guess. There are crescent-shaped arrowheads with very large bows both disproportionately large.
            Furthermore there are many sets of striding figures carrying bows and bags, and long sticks. Images of sitting people together with bows and bags covering an area 1 m wide by 0, 5 m high. Not too clear, but traceable. A grouping of three images with spears/long sticks, probably associated with the remains of a left-facing giraffe. There is a row of about five figures in yellowish paint. They look like they are 'sleepwalkers', probably in dance formation. Very large figure (30 cm tall) holds stick in one hand and bow aloft in right hand.
            There is a painting of an outlined rhino -- just the head (solid) and neck and dorsal line. As well as a painting of hartebeest, gemsbok and possibly an outlined eland. Just below the hartebeest is a row of running figures, some of which carry flywhisks and at least one of which has an infibulated penis.
            Smearing: a figure holding arrows in an outstretched hand and carrying a bow. Reclining antelope below. Another smear, probably also another human figure. Two outlined elephant, possibly an outlined giraffe too. A troop of standing springbok, originally in red and white paint, but mostly all faded and covered by a calcite wash. A couple of giraffe above the springbok.
            Ameib XIV
            Site
            Brief description of art: There are five to six animals that look like sheep (?). And one paint smear.