Many populations of threatened mammals persist outside formally protected areas, and their
survival depends on the willingness of communities to coexist with them. An understanding …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a
psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason …

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology.
This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, flowing style, with minimal use …

This article explores the formation of mounted frontier raiding groups of diverse origins in the
mountains of the north-eastern Cape Colony. It addresses concepts of creolisation, identity …

The ethnographic decipherment of the Bushman (San) rock art of southern Africa instigated
a revolution in our understanding of hunter-gatherer rock arts worldwide, even in regions …

JD Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers,
excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a …

We argue here that it is possible to study dance in prehistoric societies by analysing how it
was depicted in rock art. For this research to be effective, subjectivity must be minimised by …

Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never
know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues …

A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified
as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of …