San Rock Art

✍ Scribed by J. David Lewis-Williams

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 161
• Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery.

Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.

✦ Subjects

Criticism History Arts Photography Africa Algeria Egypt Ethiopia Kenya Nigeria South Sudan Zimbabwe Native American Americas Cultural Anthropology Politics Social Sciences Archaeology