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Rhodesia and South West Africa. All members of the team were involved in locating and photographing the works while the painters and
Frobenius made copies of the artwork. Frobenius documented one particularly extensive rock art site at Cinyati, which is now known as eBusingatha in the northern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg. This site was affected by removal of some of the art in 1947 and a series of collapses in the late 1990s so Frobenius' documentation of the untouched site is valuable as a record of its earlier condition. The rock paintings date from between 500 and 1820 AD.
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Frobenius is sometimes credited with making the first major contribution to the study of rock art in Southern Africa. In addition to rock art the painters also captured aspects of local culture such as architecture and local dress. Some 400 of these paintings were produced, in addition to 3,000 photographs and a 16mm film reel. The expedition also recorded the stories, myths and poems of local people. Frobenius attempted to link the cultural record to the myths depicted in the rock art.
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addition some beads were found to be made from pure copper or copper gilded with gold. A silver-based jewellery chain was also discovered. It was found to be of a unique alloy with copper and zinc that provided a durable and corrosion resistant material, amenable to melting and casting. Duncan Miller writing in 1992 considered it unlikely that this item was of
African manufacture owing to the use of soldering and level of silver and zinc content.
83:, DIAFE) to Africa between 1904 and 1935. His work in the field has been described as epic and pioneering and is of considerable documentary value. However, his conclusions on the development of African civilisation from non-African origins were controversial and are not supported by modern writers. He has also been accused of using the expeditions to loot items of cultural value from Africa.
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Schulz assessed several chisels and wedge tools that he found to be made of alternating layers of low and high carbon steel, similar to wrought iron. This may have been intentionally made so that the soft portion swore away to leave a fresh, hard cutting edge. He speculated that the tools were made
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The expedition also collected a wide range of ethnological artefacts. Many of these were made of metal and were analysed in
Germany by Professor EH Schulz. In addition the expedition explored prehistoric tin and copper mines in the northern Transvaal and Rhodesia and samples of metals recovered
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Schulz took samples from inconspicuous area of the artefacts, which were largely made from iron, steel and bronze. The bronze, which was used to make wire, rings and bead, was found to be made from a mixture of 90% copper and 10% tin - a similar composition to that found in modern bronze. In
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Frobenius and his team made reproductions (primarily in watercolour) of 2,000 articles of African rock art from across Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. This helped to make the Frobenius collection of the most significant records of rock art in the world in terms of scale and
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From 17 January 1929 the expedition split into different parties: Frobenius and Jensen when to
Southern Rhodesia and Mozambique by car and three of the painters went to Natal by train. Groups looked at rock art separately in Natal, the Cape Orange Free State, Basutoland, Northern and Southern
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135:). Frobenius was particularly keen to examine the rock art which he considered provided the "oldest tangible records of humanity". The expedition was planned to coincide with a joint meeting of the
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African indigenous metal - ahead of GH Stanley's more famous work in the Transvaal in 1931.
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