1st Edition
Cognitive Archaeology Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond
1. The benefits of an ethnographically informed cognitive archaeology
David S. Whitley, Johannes H.N. Loubser, and Gavin Whitelaw
2. Cognitive archaeology revisited: agency, structure and the interpreted past.
David S. Whitley
3. Ethnographic texts and rock art in southern Africa: a personal perspective.
J.D. Lewis-Williams
4. Cultural traditions on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris, and High Plains Upper Republican.
Thomas N. Huffman and Frank Lee Earley
5. Paquimé’s appeal: the creation of an elite pilgrimage site in the North American Southwest.
Todd L. VanPool and Christine S. VanPool
6. Ntshekane and the Central Cattle Pattern: reconstructing settlement history.
Thomas N. Huffman and Gavin Whitelaw
7. Homesteads, pots, and marriage in southeast southern Africa: cognitive models and the dynamic past
Gavin Whitelaw
8. A cognitive approach to the ordering of the world: some case studies from the Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people of South Africa
Johan van Schalkwyk
9. Anthropomorphic pottery effigies as guardian spirits in the Lower Mississippi Valley
David H. Dye
10. Upemba archaeology, Luba ethnography, and vice versa
Pierre de Maret
11. Gates between worlds: ethnographically informed management and conservation of petroglyph boulders in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Johannes H.N. Loubser and Scott Ashcraft
12. On the archaeology of elves
Joakim Goldhahn
13. Cognitive continuities in place: an exploration of enduring, site-specific ritual practices in the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence Area
M.H. Schoeman
Biography
David S. Whitley specializes in the archaeology and ethnography of far western North America as well as rock art globally. He is a director at ASM Affiliates, Inc., a cultural resource management firm, in Tehachapi, California, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand.
Johannes H. N. Loubser is an archaeologist and rock art specialist at Stratum Unlimited LLC, Atlanta, and a research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. He specializes in rock art conservation and management but also conducts archaeological excavations when needed.
Gavin Whitelaw is an archaeologist at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, South Africa, and an honorary lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research focuses on Iron Age farmers of southern Africa.
