The Janette Deacon Collection in African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes contains 5,037 images of rock art. Janette Deacon, a South African archaeologist, has studied and worked on rock art in Southern Africa for decades in various capacities. In her earlier career, she was a Lecturer in Archaeology at University of Cape Town; edited the South African Archaeological Bulletin; and served as archaeologist at the National Monuments Council in South Africa. For the past decade, Janette Deacon has continued to focus on rock art by organizing courses on rock art site management, advising the Southern African Rock Art Project; and managing the South African Rock Art Initiative, which trains rock art tourist guides and managers.

Her collection comprises photographs and tracings of rock engravings of the /Xam people, slides and prints from a survey of rock paintings in the south-western Cape, and before and after photographs of rock paintings sites with charcoal graffiti.

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