Twyfelfontein

Twyfelfontein , formally known as ?Ui-?Ais, is a website of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. It consists of a spring in a valley flanked with the aid of the slopes of a sandstone table mountain that receives very little rainfall and has a wide range of diurnal temperatures. The website has been inhabited for 6,000 years, first with the aid of hunter-gatherers and later by Khoikhoi herders. Both ethnic businesses used it as a place of worship and a website to conduct shamanist rituals. In the technique of these rituals as a minimum 2,500 items of rock carvings were created, as well as some rock art work.

Displaying one among the largest concentrations of rock petroglyphs in Africa, UNESCO accepted Twyfelfontein as Namibia's first World Heritage Site in 2007. Twyfelfontein valley has been inhabited by way of Stone-age hunter-gatherers of the Wilton stone age subculture group on the grounds that approximately 6,000 years in the past. They made maximum of the engravings and probably all of the artwork. 2,000 to two,500 years in the past the Khoikhoi, an ethnic institution associated with the San, occupied the valley, then recognized under its Damara/Nama name ?Ui-?Ais. The Khoikhoi also produced rock artwork that may virtually be outstanding from the older engravings.