Images of war
A problem in San rock art research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Campbell (0000-0001-5110-7383, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-268 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1986.9980002 |
| OpenAlex | W1995095361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 27 |
Paintings of conflict are not uncommon in the rock art of southern Africa and are distributed over a wide area. A variety of weapons and forms of conflict are portrayed. These paintings can be considered from two viewpoints: either they are realistic depictions of actual events or else they are essentially hallucinatory, portraying the non‐real world of trance experience. It is argued that, although the selected paintings are highly detailed, they contain postures and hallucinatory features which indicate that they are intimately associated with medicine men and trance
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Painting · Rock art · Sociology · Trance · Variety (cybernetics · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
‘Waste-howling wilderness’
‘Appetite comes with eating’
A Performance-Theory Revisit of the Conflict Scene at the Ventershoek (2927CA1) Rock Art Site
When not everything is as nice as its looks. Social veiled conflicts in Levantine rock art (Spain)
Holocene later stone age hunter-gatherers south of the Limpopo River, Ca. 10,000-2000 B.P
Dots and Dashes
Empowering Places
Colonial Era Paintings in the Rock Art of the South-Western Cape
Indigenising the gun – rock art depictions of firearms in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa
Red Lines and Arrows
Modelling the Production and Consumption of Rock Art
Through the Veil
Preliminary Report on the Koebee Rock Paintings, Western Cape Province, South Africa
New Approaches in the Search for Meaning? A Review of Research in “Paleolithic Art“
Before farming? Cattle kept and painted by the southeastern San
Changing fortunes of Southern African archaeology
The Many Meanings of “Integration”
Allusions to Agriculturist Rituals in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art? eMkhobeni Shelter, Northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Representation and the aethetic in San art
Vanished Wars of Australia
The Signs of All Times
Australia's Ancient Warriors
Seeing and Construing
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art
Escape and abscond
Frogs or people
A ritual assemblage from the third millennium BC in the Namib Desert and its implications for the archaeology and rock art of shamanic performance
The Origins of War
Revelations of religious reality
Reading art, writing history
The long southern African past
A history in paint and stone from Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa
Everything has a history
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa
Envisioning San History
The rock art of southern Africa
Boiling energy
South African Journal of Science
A Distributional Approach to the Interpretation of Rock Art in the South-Western Cape
Advances in world archaeology
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
The Native Races of South Africa
Stone Age Myth and Magic
Bantu Shields
Elephants in the Rain
Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg
Shields in South African Rock Paintings
The Evidence for Herding at Boomplaas Cave in the Southern Cape, South Africa
The Thin Red Line
The Empiricist Impasse in Southern African Rock Art Studies
Art of the Rocks of Southern Africa
Beliefs and Customs of the |Xam Bushmen
Art on the Rocks of Southern Africa
Khoisan resistance to the Dutch in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The Economic and Social Context of Southern San Rock Art [and Comments and Reply]
Sapience and scarce resources
The Medicine Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research
On the Social Context of Southern African Rock Art
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |