In the early 1960s, 16-year-old Karl-Ludwig von Bezing stumbled across some odd pottery fragments poking out from the soil on his family’s farm in South Africa. As an amateur geologist and archaeologist, the young man’s curiosity was piqued. Between 1962 and 1964, Von Bezing went on to excavate and collect what eventually were identified as the oldest African Iron Age artworks from south of the equator. Once reconstructed at the University of Cape Town, a total of seven ceramic heads were found. Thought to be ceremonial objects for rites of passage, two…
