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For thousands of years it was a place of spiritual upliftment where shamans entered trances and etched their visions in stone. Today, the newly opened Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Site is being used to boost the economy of an uprooted community in South Africa's impoverished Northern Cape province. Located about 10 miles from the diamond-mining town of Kimberley, it is one of the few rock art sites to be opened to the public in South Africa, which boasts some of the finest stone engravings and paintings in the world.