Seeing is deceiving: Rock art and the non-visual

World Archaeology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 237-256

  Ouzman, Sven ^a  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Quest; Rock Art; Sound; Southern Africa; Touch

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844421909     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240120079271     Document Type: Article

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