Seeing and Construing: The Making and ‘Meaning’ of a Southern African Rock Art Motif

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Cambridge Archaeological Journal

• Publication date

  1995-04-01

• Fields of study

  Art, History

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  DOI 10.1017/S0959774300001165
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