David Lewis-Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Lewis-Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis-Williams |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS-WILLIAMS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Constructing a Cosmos: Architecture, Power and Domestication at Çatalhöyük
This article argues that the structures of Çatalhöyük were constructed exemplars of a tiered cosmology comprising three interacting levels: an upper and a lower realm and, between them, the level of daily life. The dimly lit rooms were, in some circumstances, thought of as spaces in the lower realm, the walls being an interface between the people who entered a room and a spirit world of animals and supernatural beings. The domestication of the au…
Stories That Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa
Stories That Float from Afar
Meaning' in Southern African San Rock Art: Another Impasse
Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research
Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art: French and South African Collaboration
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Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past: Ezeljagdspoort reviewed
Since 1835 travellers and scholars have been looking at, and ‘reading’, a strange painting of apparently fish-tailed figures at Ezeljagdspoort, in the southern part of the Cape Province, South Africa. Each reading has been made within some external frame-of-reference, whether supposed histories of racial conflict or Jungian archetypes of child-like primitive insight. These set aside, a surer route to an ‘inside’ reading may be based on our knowle…
Images of Power: Understanding Bushman Rock Art
Art for Art's Sake in the Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
Art for Art's Sake in the Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
Stories That Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa
Constructing a Cosmos: Architecture, Power and Domestication at Çatalhöyük
This article argues that the structures of Çatalhöyük were constructed exemplars of a tiered cosmology comprising three interacting levels: an upper and a lower realm and, between them, the level of daily life. The dimly lit rooms were, in some circumstances, thought of as spaces in the lower realm, the walls being an interface between the people who entered a room and a spirit world of animals and supernatural beings. The domestication of the au…
Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past: Ezeljagdspoort reviewed
Since 1835 travellers and scholars have been looking at, and ‘reading’, a strange painting of apparently fish-tailed figures at Ezeljagdspoort, in the southern part of the Cape Province, South Africa. Each reading has been made within some external frame-of-reference, whether supposed histories of racial conflict or Jungian archetypes of child-like primitive insight. These set aside, a surer route to an ‘inside’ reading may be based on our knowle…
Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art: French and South African Collaboration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meaning' in Southern African San Rock Art: Another Impasse
Art for Art's Sake in the Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
Images of Power: Understanding Bushman Rock Art
Rock art and changing perceptions of southern Africa's past: Ezeljagdspoort reviewed
Since 1835 travellers and scholars have been looking at, and ‘reading’, a strange painting of apparently fish-tailed figures at Ezeljagdspoort, in the southern part of the Cape Province, South Africa. Each reading has been made within some external frame-of-reference, whether supposed histories of racial conflict or Jungian archetypes of child-like primitive insight. These set aside, a surer route to an ‘inside’ reading may be based on our knowle…
Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research
Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art: French and South African Collaboration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meaning' in Southern African San Rock Art: Another Impasse
Stories That Float from Afar
Stories That Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa
Constructing a Cosmos: Architecture, Power and Domestication at Çatalhöyük
This article argues that the structures of Çatalhöyük were constructed exemplars of a tiered cosmology comprising three interacting levels: an upper and a lower realm and, between them, the level of daily life. The dimly lit rooms were, in some circumstances, thought of as spaces in the lower realm, the walls being an interface between the people who entered a room and a spirit world of animals and supernatural beings. The domestication of the au…
Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Rock art (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)