This article reviews recent ontological debates in archaeology and examines how ontology
has been discussed in rock art studies. It questions the prevailing symbolic analysis of rock …

28 Part I: Historical Perspectives if somewhat uneasy use. This is because what
archaeologists have understood to be “landscape archaeology” has shifted, so that today it …

Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four
to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the …

First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of studying rock art has become
the standard text for courses on this topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine …

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal
and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in …

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social
science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a …

The thesis focuses on rock art and landscapes of the Stone Age of northern Fennoscandia,
between about 10000BC until 2000BC. Five areas with rock art are selected for in-depth …

The meaning of 'shamanism'has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the
term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained altered states of …

The visual primacy of rock-art imagery can sometimes blind researchers to equally important
but less obvious, non-visual aspects of rock art. Recent work from southern Africa indicates …

This paper outlines a new role for rock art in the writing of southern African history. The old
view of the art as a pictorial record of Stone Age life needs to be discarded. What has been …