Andrew Skinner (University of Witswatersrand) talks to us on this episode about the interpretation of rock art in southern Africa using critical and interdisciplinary approaches.

In his research, Andrew concentrates on the analysis of rock art on the Cape Coast of South Africa by considering the historic and geographic context of the ethnography. Today, he speaks about the limitations of previous arguments describing rock art as simply being ‘ritual’ or merely being a documentation of prehistoric life. He aims to reframe our studies of the oral and historic record through interviews, work in genetics, linguistics and other areas of anthropology/archaeology, and greater inclusion of contemporary communities as partners in interpretation.

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