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Poetry meets practicality in these pages: honey-hunting men dance along a thread of light, and a reader s inspiration results.

'A marvellous book: scholarly, but wonderfully readable too' - Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh 'Lewis-Williams and Challis's writing is direct and clear ... their scientific analysis is illuminated by sympathetic intuition' - Independent 'A fascinating book about a fascinating topic' - The Contemporary Review 'An elegantly written work ... a fascinating volume' - The Historical Association 'Fascinating, readable and beautifully illustrated' - British Museum Magazine 'An outstanding introduction to Bushman rock art and powerful testimony to the sophistication of its makers' - Peter Mitchell, University of Oxford '[This book] reveals the extraordinary complexity of San imagination and the harsh but beautiful landscapes they inhabited. Weaving together a lifetime's study of paintings made by the San with accounts of their lives left by early European explorers and anthropologists, Deciphering Ancient Minds is a tour de force' - Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge

Poetry meets practicality in these pages: honey-hunting men dance along a thread of light, and a reader's inspiration results.

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David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor in the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. Among his books are The Mind in the Cave, Inside the Neolithic Mind (with David Pearce) and The Shamans of Prehistory (with Jean Clottes).

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