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ID: 7032596
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032596
Record Type:
administrative
Tsodilo Hills (hills)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -18.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 021 46 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.7790
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of a rock shelter and thousands of rock paintings within the Kalahari Desert. Noted for 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals.
Names:
Tsodilo Hills
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tsodilo Hill
(
C
,
V
)
Tsodilo
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Botswana
(nation) (
P
)
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North West District
(national district) (
P
)
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Tsodilo Hills
(hills) (
P
)
Place Types:
hills (
preferred
,
C
)
prehistoric site (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
paleontological site (
C
)
World Heritage Site (
C
)
former community (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Tsodilo..........
[
VP
]
.................
Robbins et al, Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter (2000)
Tsodilo Hill..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 31 March 2009
Tsodilo Hills..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Grove Art Online (2003-2008)
"Botswana." accessed 31 2009.
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 31 March 2009
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
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Grove Art Online (2003-2008)
accessed 31 March 2009
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 31 March 2009
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Robbins et al, Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter (2000)
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© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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