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Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsCognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art ResearchJ. D. Lewis-WilliamsJ. D. Lewis-Williams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 27, Number 2Apr., 1986 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/203415 Views: 40Total views on this site Citations: 21Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1986 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:John Parkington, Andrew Paterson Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 56, no.44 (Feb 2022): 463–481.https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2021.2030932David Lewis-Williams Image-Makers, 71 (May 2019).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632829Thembi Russell, Faye Lander ‘The bees are our sheep’: the role of honey and fat in the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousand years in southernmost Africa, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50, no.33 (Aug 2015): 318–342.https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2015.1051793Livio Dobrez The Perception of Depicted Motion, Arts 2, no.44 (Dec 2013): 383–446.https://doi.org/10.3390/arts2040383Matt J. Rossano Supernaturalizing Social Life, Human Nature 18, no.33 (Sep 2007): 272–294.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-007-9002-4J. D. Lewis-Williams Putting the record straight: Rock art and shamanism, Antiquity 77, no.295295 (Jan 2015): 165–170.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00061469William R. Hildebrandt, Kelly R. McGuire The Ascendance of Hunting during the California Middle Archaic: An Evolutionary Perspective, American Antiquity 67, no.22 (Jan 2017): 231–256.https://doi.org/10.2307/2694565David S. Whitley, Ronald I. Dorn, Joseph M. Simon, Robert Rechtman, Tamara K. Whitley Sally's Rockshelter and the Archaeology of the Vision Quest, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9, no.22 (Oct 2009): 221–247.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015390J. D. Lewis-Williams Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5, no.11 (Dec 2008): 3–23.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300001165P. S. Garlake Archetypes and attributes: Rock paintings in Zimbabwe, World Archaeology 25, no.33 (Feb 1994): 346–355.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1994.9980250David Lewis-Williams, Thomas A. Dowson, Janette Deacon Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past: Ezeljagdspoort reviewed, Antiquity 67, no.255255 (Jan 2015): 273–291.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X0004535XKim Sales Ascent to the sky. A shamanic initiatory engraving from the Burrup Peninsula, northwest Western Australia, Archaeology in Oceania 27, no.11 (Nov 2014): 22–36.https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.1992.tb00280.xPippa Skotnes Rock Art: Is There Life After Trance?, de arte 26, no.4444 (Aug 2016): 16–24.https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.1991.11761133J. D. Lewis-Williams Wrestling with Analogy: A Methodological Dilemma in Upper Palaeolithic Art Research., Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 57, no.0101 (Feb 2014): 149–162.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00004941J. F. Thackeray On concepts expressed in southern African rock art, Antiquity 64, no.242242 (Jan 2015): 139–144.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00077395Solveig A. Turpin Rock Art and Hunter-gatherer Archaeology: A Case Study from SW Texas and Northern Mexico, Journal of Field Archaeology 17, no.33 (Jul 2013): 263–281.https://doi.org/10.1179/009346990791548259John Parkington Interpreting paintings without a commentary: meaning and motive, content and composition in the rock art of the western Cape, South Africa, Antiquity 63, no.238238 (Jan 2015): 13–26.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00075542Thomas A. Dowson Revelations of religious reality: The individual in San rock art, World Archaeology 20, no.11 (Jun 1988): 116–128.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1988.9980060L. A. Schepartz Who were the latter Pleistocene eastern Africans?, The African Archaeological Review 6, no.11 (Jan 1988): 57–72.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117112P. S. Garlake Themes in the prehistoric art of Zimbabwe, World Archaeology 19, no.22 (Oct 1987): 178–193.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1987.9980033C. Campbell Images of war: A problem in San rock art research, World Archaeology 18, no.22 (Oct 1986): 255–268.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1986.9980002