THE ROCK ART OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

68 pages text + 109 annotated colour plates, maps, table, 25 text illustrations, black cloth, a good copy in the dust jacket.

'In this book Dr Lewis-Williams undertakes a broad survey of the rock art of southern Africa. He discusses the discovery, distribution and age of both rock paintings and rock engravings and provides a brief account of their social and economic context. He looks at nineteenth and twentieth century ethnographic accounts of the Bushmen in his attempts to interpret more clearly the often enigmatic figures and scenes depicted in the paintings. He goes on to reveal a fascinating association between the work of the Bushman artists and the experiences and hallucinations of the Bushmen medicine men.' Editor's note.