Posts & Publications

Web-nets painted in the Kouga
Yay! Finally published! Twenty four years after my first visit to this amazing rock art site, here is my paper on the mysterious rock paintings of ‘web nets’ from the Kouga

Imagining a pleasant place: a rock engraving site in the Trans-Gariep Nama Karoo, South Africa
Engravings on basement granitic rocks near Keimoes inspired us to write about an idea expressed by one of the xam people who participated in the Bleek and Lloyd project in the 19th century.

An encounter between eland and hunters
The encounter between eland (or other large animals such as elephant, giraffe & kudu) and hunter is a central theme in southern African hunter-gatherer culture, but it is not merely a record of a huntRead more…

Formlings
These well-known paintings, close to Toghwana Dam, in Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, are important in understanding mysterious paintings that have long puzzled researchers – the so-called ‘formlings’