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Prehistoric Rock Art of Jebel Shaqadud, Northwestern Butana (Sudan)
The dating and meaning of petroglyphs constitute a challenge in African rock-art research. In this article, we present and discuss a recently found...
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An Archaeological Contribution to the Kalahari Debate from the Middle Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa
The Kalahari debate deals primarily with the influence that contact with incoming groups had on San communities in southern Africa. Two schools of...
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Reading Spoor
The spoor of animals and humans alike contain rich information about an individual and about a momentary activity this individual performed. If the –...
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Transformation in Ritual
This and the remaining two chapters deal with transformation as it occurs to humans in the Second Order of Existence, in the contexts, respectively,...
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Imagining (New) Fathers
Coates (2015:63), a Black father raising his son in New York City, whose words from Between the World and Me have been cited throughout this volume,...
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Behavior in the Middle Pleistocene
The Middle Pleistocene is associated with a new level of technology, Mode 2, commonly called the Acheulean Culture. This appears in Africa and...
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Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art
The therianthropes of myth and their ontologically unstable, at times, dazzling transformations are motifs not only of San mythology but also of art,...
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Analyzing Drawings to Explore children’s Concepts of an Ideal School: Implications for the Improvement of children’s Well-Being at School
Because not much is known about children’s subjective well-being (SWB) in educational spaces, our objective was to analyze children’s drawings of...
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Dystopian Fictocriticism
I present this fictocriticism as a ‘genre-bending’ (Rhodes, Culture and Organization 21:289–303, 2015, p. 294) dystopian fiction and interpretation...
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The Style of Blugzeimat and the “Masks” of the Prehistoric Rock Art of the Western Sahara: New Evidence for Long-Distance Contacts
Blugzeimat is a prehistoric rock-art site in the Tiris region (southern Western Sahara), with more than 100 engraved slabs. The major portion of...
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A Case for Springbok Hunting with Kite-Like Structures in the Northwest Nama Karoo Bioregion of South Africa
In the Levant and some arid zones of Central Asia, desert kites are well-known hunting structures often thought to have been used for the large-scale...
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Transformation and Hunting
In addition to ritual and ludic performers, there is another real-time human who may be deeply touched by transformation: the hunter. In the setting...
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Therianthropes
Therianthropic beings are described in their full splendour in this chapter. The ontological hybridity and species diversity of Myth Time’s “Early...
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The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the World of the San
This chapter deals with the at-times hovering closeness of myth and spirit beings and presences in the natural and social world of the San that...
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Empowering the Local Saharawi People: Training for Rock Art Documentation in Western Sahara (DARSSO Project)
The former Spanish Sahara is the last remaining colony in Africa. Most of the local people have been living in refugee camps in Algeria for the last...
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Domestic Consumption: Patterns and Comparisons
This chapter presents the analysis of roughly contemporaneous cesspit backfills from the Cumberland Gloucester Street site in Sydney and the...
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Knowing Your Audience: Reactions to the Human Body, Dead and Undead
In order to effectively “speak out” as bioarchaeologists, practitioners must be aware of their audiences, both intended and unintended and academic...