Research Catalog

Title

Further approaches to southern African rock art / edited by Geoffrey Blundell.

Publication

Vlaeberg, South Africa : South African Archaeological Society in association with ASAPA, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Blundell, Geoffrey.
• South African Archaeological Society.

Description

113 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Goodwin series / South African Archaeological Society, 0304-3460 ; v. 9 (December 2005)

Uniform Title

Goodwin series ; v. 9.

Subject

Rock paintings > Africa, Southern

Note

• Title from cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : three focus areas of current southern African rock art research / Geoffrey Blundell -- Linking sex, species and a supernatural snake at Lab X rock art site / Lara Mallen -- 'The men with rhebok's heads; they tame elands and snakes' : incorporating the rhebok antelope in the understanding of southern African rock art / William Challis -- 'Swift people' : therianthropes and bird symbolism in hunter-gatherer rock-paintings, Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa / Jeremy C. Hollmann -- A new iconographic understanding of formlings : a pervasive motif in Zimbabwean rock art / S. Mguni -- Iconography and interpretation of the Tierkloof painted stone / David G. Pearce -- Populating no-man's-land : rock art in northern Namibia / Tilman Lenssen-Erz & Ralf Vogelsang -- Fingerprints of the Khoekhoen : geometric and handprinted rock art in the Central Limpopo Basin, southern Africa / Edward B. Eastwood & Benjamin W. Smith -- Art, authorship and female issues in a northern Sotho rock painting site / Catherine Namono & Edward B. Eastwood -- Sharing symbols : a correspondence in the ritual dress of Black farmers and the southeastern San / Pieter Jolly -- The magical arts of a raider nation : central South Africa's Korana rock art / Sven Ouzman.

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