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Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

J. D. Lewis-Williams
J. D. Lewis-Williams
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Rock Art Research UnitDepartment of ArchaeologyUniversity of the WitwatersrandJohannesburg 2050, South Africa
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The construction of archaeological arguments is a continuing source of concern. In comparatively recent years archaeological data have come to be seen as a text that can in some sense be ‘read’. Rejecting this approach in favour of arguments constructed by the intertwining of disparate strands of evidence, this article explores the possible meanings of a southern African rock art motif. Variations in the art itself, nineteenth- and twentieth-century San ethnography and studies of altered states of consciousness combine to suggest that this motif, though idiosyncratically depicted by different artists, was associated with the ways in which San shamans broke through into the spiritual realm.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 3 - 23
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1995

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