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Deciphering Ancient Minds : The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art by Sam Challis and David Lewis-Williams (2011, Hardcover)

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How did ancient peoples--those living before written records--think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa--among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth--became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.

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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500051690
ISBN-13
9780500051696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99524180

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Book Title
Deciphering Ancient Minds : the Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art
Author
David Lewis-Williams, Sam Challis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, Africa / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
26.9 Oz

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Gn865
Reviews
Poetry meets practicality in these pages: honey-hunting men dance along a thread of light, and a reader's inspiration results.
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
709.01130968
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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