Sam Challis
| Region of Interest | Africa |
| Primary Country of Residence | South Africa |
| Title | Dr |
| Affiliation | Rock Art Research Institute
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| Mailing Address | Rock Art Research Institute
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| Countries of Specialization | South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania |
| Education | DPhil, MSt, Oxford |
| Research Interests | Rock Art, Historical Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherer History, Cognitive Archaeology, Neuropsychology, Community Archaeology |
| Teaching Interests | World Hunter-Gatherers, Southern African Rock Art, World Rock Art, Contact Archaeology, Colonial History |
| Publications | Books 2011 Deciphering ancient minds: the mystery of San Bushman rock art (with D. Lewis-Williams). London and New York: Thames & Hudson. Book Chapters (peer-reviewed) 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.
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.
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. |
| Keywords | San; Rock Art; African History; Colonial History; Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology |