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New approaches to southern African rock art / edited by J.D. Lewis-Williams.

Title
New approaches to southern African rock art / edited by J.D. Lewis-Williams.
Publication
Cape Town, South Africa : South African Archaeological Society, 1983.

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Additional Authors
Lewis-Williams, J. David.
Description
60 pages : illustrations, map; 30 cm.
Series Statement
Goodwin series ; v. 4
Uniform Title
Goodwin series ; v. 4.
Subjects
Note
  • Cover title.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Introductory essay / J.D. Lewis-Williams -- Paints of the Khoisan rock artists / Ione Rudner -- Dating the rock art of southern Africa / A.I. Thackeray -- Rock art studies : towards more rigour in hypothesis and description / A.R. Willcox -- A distributional approach to the interpretation of rock art in the south-western Cape / A. Manhire, J. Parkington, & W. van Rijssen -- Eland, rhebuck and cranes : identifying seasonality in the paintings of the Drakensberg / A.D. Mazel -- Disguises, animal behaviour and concepts of control in relation to the rock art of southern Africa / J.F. Thackeray -- Elephants in boxes / T.M.O'C. Maggs & J. Sealy -- The trance hypothesis and the rock art of Zimbabwe / T.N. Huffman -- Interpretation in rock art and folklore : communication systems in evolutionary perspective / M. Biesele.
ISBN
0620054891
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries