(Please read from the start)
Further South of Edfu, we have El-Hosh location which is older than the previous Wadi we’ve seen in the previous page.
https://per-storemyr.net/2013/08/12/new-paper-on-the-unique-epipalaeolithic-geometric-rock-art-at-el-hosh-upper-egypt/
“New paper on the unique Epipalaeolithic geometric rock art at el-Hosh, Upper Egypt
Posted on August 12, 2013
A year ago Dirk Huyge and I published a paper in the Sahara journal on a unique rock art “masterpiece” found among the Epipalaeolithic “geometric” (c. 5-9000 BC) assemblage at el-Hosh in Upper Egypt. Recently, we published another version of the discovery in Ancient Egypt Magazine.
The Epipalaeolithic geometric rock art assemblages in Egypt are now fairly well-known (further reading here) and some of their components, such as fish traps, can be reasonably well interpreted. But most motifs yet resist any closer identification and understanding of meaning. So also with the unique motif at el-Hosh. In the new paper we compare with a few other very intricate Epipalaeolithic motifs in Egypt, such as in Wadi Umm Salam in the Eastern Desert (see picture below) – in addition to describing the el-Hosh motif.
And we write: “It cannot be determined whether or not this design is entirely abstract or figurative in some way. P.S. proposes that it may represent elaborate headgear or a mask, whilst D.H. thinks it may be a geometricised topographical image. In the absence of any objects or documents from the Egyptian Epipalaeolithic archaeological record, at the moment it is not possible to relate the motif to any identifiable living creature or inanimate object.”
Any other ideas?
Reference
Huyge, D. & Storemyr, P. (2013): Unique Geometric Rock Art at el-Hosh. Ancient Egypt Magazine, 13, 6, 24-30. PDF at Dirk Huyge’s academia.edu site”
>> This is what I’m trying to tell anons: the further we go inwards Tropical Africa following the Nile, the weirder things get. And older of course. I will add: it gets even harder to explain things up.
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