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as part of the Public Lecture Series\u00a0Rock Art & Symbolic Expression.\u00a0A Southern Africa\u00a0\u2013 France Dialogue<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 18.00 for 18.30 | Sci-Bono Discovery Centre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street,\u00a0<\/em>Newtown, Johannesburg<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The lecture\u00a0will discuss Prof. David Lewis-Williams<\/a>\u2019 The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art<\/em>\u00a0(Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2004). This book is a study of Upper Palaeolithic European rock art, and it details the various approaches to rock art analysis and interpretation. In the light of the Wonders of Rock Art. Lascaux Cave and Africa<\/em> exhibition, Sam Challis aims to link David Lewis-Williams\u2019 theses to the cave paintings which can be observed at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre until October 1st, 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sam Challis <\/strong>is a\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Researcher at the Rock Art Research Institute <\/a>of Wits University in Johannesburg. His research focuses on deciphering San and other rock art from an indigenous perspective. He also does ethnographic analysis, especially about the new animisms.<\/p>\n His interests include archaeological contact between hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, farmers and Europeans, dealing with issues of indigeneity, cultural creolisation, ethnogenesis and entanglement. In these contexts, his rock art research aims to offer a “reverse gaze”. His work often involves working with and training local collectives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThursday 28 June 2018<\/h4>\n
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