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Sam Challis

36 works· latest 2026· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-9137-2680

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Most cited in this library

Deciphering ancient minds : the mystery of San Bushman rock art2011 · 90 citations
Reconfiguring Hunting Magic: Southern Bushman (San) Perspectives on Taming and Their Implications for Understanding Rock Art2016 · 87 citations
Creolisation on the Nineteenth-century Frontiers of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the AmaTola ‘Bushmen’ in the Maloti-Drakensberg2012 · 85 citations
Threads of Light: Re-Examining a Motif in Southern African San Rock Art2000 · 49 citations
‘Rain snakes’ from the Senqu River: new light on Qing's commentary on San rock art from Sehonghong, Lesotho2013 · 40 citations

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Mountain Meanings

Oxford University Press eBooks·2026·2 authors·chapter

0citations

Cultures of Appropriation: Rock Art Ownership, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and Decolonisation

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology·2024·2 authors·chapter·Open access

3citations

Becoming elands’ people: Neoglacial subsistence and spiritual transformations in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains, southern Africa

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa·2023·2 authors·Open access

13citations

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in San Forager Theories of Disease, and Its Implications for Understanding Images of Conflict in Southern African Rock Art

Cambridge Archaeological Journal·2023·1 author·Open access

2citations

Rock art as African history: what religious images say about identity, survival and change

·2023·2 authors·other

0citations

Rock art: how South Africa’s coat of arms got to feature an ancient San painting

·2022·1 author·other

0citations

The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa

Current Anthropology·2022·2 authors·Open access

20citations

Fluidities of personhood in the idioms of the Maloti-Drakensberg, past and present, and their use in incorporating contextual ethnographies in southern African rock art research

Time and Mind·2022·1 author

11citations

Art and Influence, Presence and Navigation in Southern African Forager Landscapes

Religions·2021·1 author·Open access

15citations

South Africa’s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance

·2021·2 authors·other

0citations

Another testimony of cross-cultural interaction? The wall grooves of Bushman Rock Shelter

HAL·2021·3 authors·other

0citations

An ancient San rock art mural in South Africa reveals new meaning

·2021·4 authors·other

1citations

The devil’s in the detail: revisiting the ceiling panel at RSA CHI1, Kamberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Azania Archaeological Research in Africa·2021·4 authors

12citations

Runaway slaves, rock art and resistance in the Cape Colony, South Africa

Azania Archaeological Research in Africa·2020·2 authors

8citations

High and mighty: a San expression of excess potency control in the high-altitude hunting grounds of southern Africa

Time and Mind·2019·1 author

14citations

The Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art (MARA) Program Excavations: The Archaeology of Mafusing 1 Rock Shelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Journal of African Archaeology·2018·11 authors

6citations

Collections, Collecting and Collectives: Gathering Heritage Data with Communities in the Mountains of Matatiele and Lesotho, Southern Africa

African Archaeological Review·2018·1 author

11citations

Erratum to: Concerning Heritage: Lessons from Rock Art Management in the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site

Springer eBooks·2018·3 authors·other

0citations

Concerning Heritage: Lessons from Rock Art Management in the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site

Springer eBooks·2017·3 authors·chapter

5citations

Creolization in the Investigation of Rock Art of the Colonial Era

·2017·1 author·other

15citations

THE ‘INTERIOR WORLD’ OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MALOTI-DRAKENSBERG MOUNTAINS

The Journal of African History·2017·2 authors·Open access

21citations

Rock art and emergent identity: the creolization process in nineteenth-century South African borderlands

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology·2017·1 author

0citations

Reconfiguring Hunting Magic: Southern Bushman (San) Perspectives on Taming and Their Implications for Understanding Rock Art

Cambridge Archaeological Journal·2016·1 author

87citations

Medicine dog; medicine baboon: images of horses perceived by contact cultures in rock art.

The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology·2015·1 author

0citations

Joseph Millerd Orpen's 'A Glimpse into the Mythology of the Maluti Bushmen': a contextual introduction and republished text

Southern African humanities·2013·2 authors

31citations

‘Rain snakes’ from the Senqu River: new light on Qing's commentary on San rock art from Sehonghong, Lesotho

Azania Archaeological Research in Africa·2013·2 authors

40citations

Spatial Distribution of Rock Art Sites in Didima Gorge, South Africa

American Antiquity·2012·4 authors

2citations

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·2012·1 author

85citations

Deciphering ancient minds : the mystery of San Bushman rock art

·2011·2 authors·book

90citations

Before Farming·2010·2 authors

6citations

Fishing in the rain: control of rain-making and aquatic resources at a previously undescribed rock art site in Highland Lesotho

Journal of African Archaeology·2008·3 authors

24citations

A 'first' glimpse into the Maloti Mountains : the diary of James Murray Grant's expedition of 1873-74

Southern African humanities·2008·2 authors

20citations

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

The Journal of North African Studies·2005·3 authors

21citations

'The men with rhebok's heads; they tame elands and snakes': Incorporating the rhebok antelope in the understanding of Southern African rock art

·2005·1 author

22citations

The Rock Art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and Its Environs, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: An Introduction to Problems of Southern African Rock-Art Regions

The South African Archaeological Bulletin·2002·4 authors

29citations

Threads of Light: Re-Examining a Motif in Southern African San Rock Art

The South African Archaeological Bulletin·2000·4 authors

49citations