The wounded roan
A contribution to the relation of hunting and trance in southern African rock art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3557809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Francis Thackeray (0000-0001-6884-382X, Anglo-Boer War Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 303 |
| Pages | 5-18 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00113663 |
| OpenAlex | W2141628569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
A 1934 photograph of a man dressed in an animal skin and a painting of three figures in a cave at Melikane, Lesotho led to a new hypothesis about the role of the roan antelope in both the economy and beliefs of early Africa. The author shows that not only art, but language too, may reach back to a time when the need for food first began to find expression in ritual
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cave · Cave painting · Ethnology · Geography · Painting · Relation (database) · Rock art · Sociology · Trance · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Prehistoric Rock Art
Faunal Remains from Holocene Deposits, Excavation 1, Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
Past and Present at Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
Closely Observed Animals, Hunter-Gatherers, and Visual Imagery in Upper Paleolithic Art
L’apport de l’ethnographie au concept de « chasse magique par empathie » (ou compatissante) et de chamanisme dans l’art préhistorique d’Afrique australe
Identifying the animal species used to manufacture bone arrowheads in South Africa
Engraved art and acoustic resonance
Believing and seeing
[African scenery and animals]
Tsuni-Goam
Disguises, Animal Behaviour and Concepts of Control in Relation to Rock Art of Southern Africa
Dating the Rock Art of Southern Africa
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
A Hottentot Rain Ceremony
The Native Races of South Africa
A Note on Southern African Rock Art, Medicine-Men and Nguni Diviners
Art Mobilier' from the Apollo 11 Cave, South West Africa
Stone Age Myth and Magic
Melikane and Upper Mangolong Revisited
The Medikane Rock-Paintings
An Analysis of Faunal Remains from Archaeological Sites in Southern South West Africa (Namibia)
The Application of the Harris Matrix to San Rock Art at Main Caves North, Kwazulu-Natal
Patterns in the Age and Context of Rock Art in the Northern Cape
Zulu-English Dictionary
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
Contested Images
New Directions in the Study of Southern African Rock Art
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
The Archaeology of Southern Africa
On concepts expressed in southern African rock art
Ethnography and Iconography
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |