"Most of the chapters in this book were given in a first form at ... [a conference held 21-24 April 2000 at Goudrivier Farm in the Waterberg, South Africa] and have been revised and enlarged for publication."--P. 7-8."

Includes: List of publications by David Lewis-Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rock art with and without ethnography / Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith -- Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things / Sven Ouzman -- Snake an veil: the rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa / David Morris -- Cups and saucers: a preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, Botswana / Nick Walker -- Art and authorship in southern African rock art: examining the Limpopo-Shashe confluence area / Edward B. Eastwood, Geoffrey Blundell and Benjamin Smith -- Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: a modern-day study from Tanzania / Imogene L. Lim -- Art and belief: the ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West / David S. Whitly -- Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming / Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Layer by layer: precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating / Johannes Loubser -- From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces / Knut Helskog -- Composite creatures in European Palaeolithic art / Jean Clottes -- Thinking strings: on theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art / Margaret W. Conkey -- Rock art without ethnography?: a history of attitude to rock art and landscape at Fr�ysj�en, western Norway / Eva Walderhaug -- 'Meaning cannot rest or stay the same' / Patricia Vinnicombe -- Manica rock art in contemporary society / Tore S�tersdal -- Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology / Julie E. Francis and Lawrence L. Loendorf -- Beyond rock art: archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame / Neil Price.

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