The construction of archaeological arguments is a continuing source of concern. In comparatively recent years archaeological data have come to be seen as a text that can in some sense be ‘read’. Rejecting this approach in favour of arguments constructed by the intertwining of disparate strands of evidence, this article explores the possible meanings of a southern African rock art motif....
ABsTR4CZ-Southern African Rock Art is taken as a starting point in order to argue the shamanic character of European Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art.The author identWes c4fferent stages of production and consumption ofrock-art depictions.AII ofthem are embedded in rituals that constituted, reproduced and sometimes subverted poiver relations.Multiple ethnographic analogies are useful in order to...