英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之德拉肯斯堡山脉 The Drakensberg—6

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Ah these! So cave paintings.

Yes, yes. These are San paintings. You may know them as Bushmen.

The San Bushmen.

Yes. You’re looking at basically the history of Drakensberg and we call it the World Heritage Sites because it’s got so many paintings around, about 35,000 to 40,000 of them around, in different sites. 

…enormous around.

Yes, dating back to about 4,000 years ago to recently like 1800s.

Have these been dated?

No, not yet.

So they could be 4,000 years old. They could be 180 years old.

Yeah.

So what do they depict¹? What do they mean?

Elands are very important in their history. That’s their totem animal. They believe that the gods have given them elands so that they can sustain themselves and draw spiritual powers from the eland. 

So they are gaining strength, they are gaining power from animal. 

Yeah. So it’s not only for food, but it’s also for religious purposes.

So these are messages. These are stories.

These are stories. These are stories.

So you’ve got these running men, very wide legs, and then seemingly falling or diving or…

It’s an attack. You see them running away. That’s a dead scene right there.

Ah. Now these cave drawings are done by San Bushmen. 

Yes. 

You are a Zulu.

I am. I am.

Is it fair to say you were enemies?

Never. Well, there was a bit of misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding!

It was. You see, San people lived a nomadic² life. They never used to have a sense of possessions. Move from place to place. Don’t own nothing at all. And then never had a concept of ownership. Ok? And then in came the Zulu in this valley. Zulus were farmers. They had cows. They had sheep.

They had possessions.  

They had possessions. They had livestock³. And then San people for the first time in their life, they see these big animals, bigger than an eland actually, and they walk quite slow. It was an easy kill, ok?

They are hunting farm animals.

Yes, they are hunting cows.

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