Three-Dimensional Puzzles: Southern African and Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art

@article{LewisWilliams2002ThreeDimensionalPS,
  title={Three-Dimensional Puzzles: Southern African and Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art},
  author={J. David Lewis-Williams},
  journal={Ethnos},
  year={2002},
  volume={67},
  pages={245 - 264}
}
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution, David Lewis-Williams reflects on the major reinterpretation of southern African rock art and Upper Palaeolithic art that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. An earlier interpretation of the rock art… 
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