MAPUNGUBWE PHOTOGRAPHS
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1. Viewpoint at the Limpopo-Shashe confluence, showing the dry Shashe River
2. From the confluence, looking down the Limpopo River
3. Schroda site, looking north towards the Limpopo
4. The K2 Valley, from Bambandyanalo Hill
5. Mapungubwe Hill from the southwest
6. Approach to the Mapungubwe Hill
7. Aerial view of Mapungubwe Hill in 1933, before excavations (note rounded top,
from soil added)
8. Historical photograph of Gardner’s excavations on top of Mapungubwe Hill in
1939, showing depth of soil on the northern part of the hill
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9. Excavation on the Southern Terrace at Mapungubwe, showing stone platform
features in situ
10. Excavation on Mapungubwe Hill, showing hut floors and post holes.
11. Excavation on the Southern Terrace in 1934, showing stone walling
12. The main access to the top of Mapungubwe Hill was via this narrow cleft
13. Pottery sherds and hut anchor holes on top of Mapungubwe Hill
14. Rehabilitation work in progress at K2 (2001)
15. Sandbagging to stabilize the slopes
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16. An important San rock shelter on Little Muck
17. Rock art of a Khoe herder with fat-tailed sheep
18. Aprons and loin cloths such as these are particularly common in the rock art of
the Mapungubwe area
19. Gameboard carved into the rock on Little Muck
20. Scoops in the rock for grinding sorghum and millet at Schroda.
21. Polychrome giraffes from Little Muck
22. Venda Period stone walling on Bambandyanalo, above K2
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23. Clay figurines and spindle whorl from Mapungubwe and K2
24. Decorated ivory bangle fragment from K2
25. Bone needle and arrow heads from K2
26. Musuku copper trade ingot from Samaria
27. Small ceramic beaker or drinking cup
28. 22 cm terracotta bowl from the royal burial site
29. Straight sided ceramic pot
30. 19cm shallow black ceramic bowl from the royal burial site
31. Fragments of Chinese celadon from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD), next to a
whole celadon wine kettle from the University of Pretoria Van Tilburg Collection
32. Trade beads from K2, including manufactured “garden-roller” beads and mould
33. Trade beads from Schroda
34. A variety of beads from Mapungubwe
35. The golden rhinoceros
36. Golden rhino, bowl, sceptre and beads
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