Item NASMUS-NAM-TIM1-4.jpg - NASMUS NAM TIM1 4

Brief description of site: NAM TIM1 takes the form of an extensive 60 m x 30 m long glaciated knobbly doleritic rock pavement. A fence runs over the western part of the site. Located on a low rise on the 1320 m contour between somewhat higher such other rises, there is still a good view to the north and west.

There is a lot of hard white quartzite material available although it is difficult to tell if many were used as tools or not. There are, however, clear stone tools of the Later Stone Age period dating back from Historic Times until about 25 000 years ago. There are patches on the rock pavement where people have ground presumably plant foods and perhaps ochre. There are also possible stone alignments.
Brief description of art: The site is dominated by pecked infill and pecked outline engravings of animal spoor - perhaps 55-60. Antelope, baboon, eland, giraffe and zebra spoor are depicted. Some of the zebra spoors have a clear 'frog' engraved in the hind-hoof. There are also half-a-dozen human footprints - some quite large (40 cm +) while others are tiny (10 cm and less) - and two bird tracks. There is a 7-toed feline spoor located 45 cm from a 7-toed human footprint, which is 58 cm from a cupule 38 mm in diameter and 6 mm in depth. Representational imagery includes some rudimentary animals, probably antelope and a recent peck-incised human figure. There are also enigmatic axe-head-like motif and 'half-dumbbell' images that are pecked infill, quite large circular motifs atop a thick stem.