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2011 	Deciphering ancient minds: the mystery of San Bushman rock art (with D. Lewis-Williams). London and New York: Thames & Hudson.

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2018	Creolization in the investigation of rock art of the colonial era, In B. David and I. McNiven (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 611-633.

2018	Concerning heritage: lessons from rock art management in the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site (with G. Laue and A. Mullen). In S. Makuvaza (ed.) Aspects of management planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites principles, approaches and practices. Cham: Springer, 119-130.

2018	An Introduction to the Problems of Southern African Rock Art Regions: The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its Environs. (with J. Hampson, G. Blundell and C. de Rosner). In G. Nash and A. Mazel (eds), Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader. Oxford: Archaeopress, 27-55.

2016 	Re-tribe and resist: the ethnogenesis of a creolised raiding band in response to colonisation. In C. Hamilton and N. Leibhammer (eds) Tribing and Untribing the Archive: identity and the material record in southern KwaZulu-Natal in the late Independent and Colonial periods. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 282-299. [Choice Journal 2017 Outstanding Academic Title].

2014 	Binding beliefs: the creolisation process in a ‘Bushman’ raider group in nineteenth-century southern Africa. In J. Deacon and P. Skotnes (eds) The courage of ||Kabbo and a century of Specimens of Bushman folklore. Johannesburg: Jacana, 246-264.

2009	Taking the reins: the introduction of the horse in the nineteenth-century Maloti-Drakensberg and the protective medicine of baboons. In: P. Mitchell & B. Smith (eds) The Eland's People: Essays in Memory of Patricia Vinnicombe. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 104-107.

2007    	Funerary monuments and horse paintings: a preliminary report on the archaeology of a site in the Tagant region of south east Mauritania – near Dhar Tichitt. (with A. Campbell, D. Coulson and J. Keenan. In J. Keenan (ed.) The Sahara, Past, Present and Future. Abingdon: Routledge, 202-213.

ISI Accredited Journal Articles

2019	High and mighty: a San expression of excess potency control in the high-altitude hunting grounds of southern Africa. In Goldhahn, J. (ed.) 2019. Special Issue Rock Art Worldings: Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 12(3):169-185.

2018	The Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art (MARA) programme excavations: the archaeology of MAF 1 rock shelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa (with H. Pinto, W. Archer, D. Witelson, R. Regensberg, S. Edwards Baker, R. Mokhachane, J. Ralimpe, N. Ndaba, L. Mokhantso and P. Lecheko). Journal of African Archaeology 16 (2):145-167.

2018 	Collections, collecting and collectives: gathering heritage data with communities in the mountains of Matatiele and Lesotho, southern Africa. African Archaeological Review 35 (2), 257-268

2017 	The ‘bullets to water’ belief complex: a pan-southern African cognate epistemology for protective medicines and the control of projectiles (with B. Sinclair-Thomson) The Journal of Conflict Archaeology 12 (3), 192-208

2017 	The ‘interior world’ of the nineteenth-century Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (with R. King) Journal of African History 58 (2), 213-37. 
 
2016	Reconfiguring hunting magic: Southern Bushman perspectives on taming and their implications for understanding rock art production (with M. McGranaghan). Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 26 (4), 579-599.

2013	Joseph Millerd Orpen’s “A Glimpse into the mythology of the Maloti Bushmen”: a contextual introduction and re-published text (With M. McGranaghan and D. Lewis-Williams). Southern African Humanities: a journal of cultural studies, 25 (1),137-166.
2013 	‘Rain snakes’ from the Senqu River: new light on Qing's commentary on San rock art from Sehonghong, Lesotho (with J. Hollmann and M. McGranaghan). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 48 (3), 331-354.
2012	Spatial Distribution of rock art sites in Didima Gorge, South Africa (with J.D. Lewis-Williams, J.H.N. Loubser, and D.G. Pearce). American Antiquity, 77 (4), 808-812.

2012	Creolisation on the Nineteenth-century Frontiers of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the AmaTola ‘Bushmen’ in the Maloti-Drakensberg, Journal of Southern African Studies, 38 (2), 265-280.

2010	Truth in Error: an enigmatic nineteenth-century San comment on southern African rock paintings of ‘lions’ and ‘shields’ (with D. Lewis-Williams) Before Farming, 9 (1), 1-13.

2008	Fishing in the rain: control of rain-making and aquatic resources at a previously undescribed rock art site in Highland Lesotho (with P. Mitchell and J. Orton). Journal of African Archaeology. 6 (2), 203-218.

2008	A first glimpse into the Maloti mountains: the diary of James Murray Grant’s expedition of 1873-1874 (with P. Mitchell) Southern African Humanities 20 (1), 401-463.

2005   	Funerary monuments and horse paintings: a preliminary report on the archaeology of a site in the Tagant region of south east Mauritania – near Dhar Tichitt (with A. Campbell, D. Coulson and J. Keenan) The Journal of North African Studies. 10: 459-470.

2005    	‘The men with rhebok’s heads; they tame elands and snakes’: incorporating the rhebok antelope in the understanding of southern African rock art. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series. 9: 11-20.

2002	The rock art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its environs, Mpumalanga Province: an introduction to problems of southern African rock art regions (with J. Hampson, G. Blundell and C. De Rosner) South African Archaeological Bulletin 57: 15-30.

2000	Threads of light: re-examining a motif in southern African rock art (with J.D.Lewis- Williams, G. Blundell and J. Hampson)  South African Archaeological Bulletin 55, 123-136.

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