A Cosmos in Stone: Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

by James David Lewis-Williams

Book Overview

J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped decode the complex paintings, and traces the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759101965
• ISBN13: 9780759101968
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"