The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in
preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological …

This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert-one of
the most hostile environments on Earth. Namib reveals the resilience and ingenuity of desert …

The archaeological record undergoes a dramatic shift in appearance whenever indigenous
peoples encounter incoming populations—whether in the form of economy, politics, or …

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean?
This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in …

Rhebok are most commonly painted in naturalistic attitudes. Rhebok are indistinguishable
from reedbuck and other small antelope'. Beyond such hackneyed associations that seem …

A new and unusual corpus of rock art, labelled as Type 3 imagery, forms the focal point of
this dissertation. Type 3 art is found at twelve known sites within the region once known as …

Present in the Trans-Pecos rock art of west Texas are many motifs intelligible within hunter-
gatherer ontological frameworks. These motifs—including human figures missing heads and …

Recent work on a well-known San rock art panel from South Africa shows that continued
movement between, on the one hand, San beliefs and rituals and, on the other, the images …

Archaeologists have frequently employed formal style-based approaches to identify regional
rock art styles as a means to learning about social organization, territoriality, boundaries and …

An Engraved Landscape is a contextual analysis of a substantial new corpus of engravings
from the Wadi al-Ajal, situated in the Central Saharan region of south west Libya. The wadi …