Public Lecture: ‘The Power of Place’ by Dr David S. Whitley

Dr David Whitley is a rock art archaeologist from California. His primary research region is far western North America.

The Coso Range engravings in eastern California, USA, is the largest concentration of rock art sites and motifs in the Americas, and possibly the world. Dr Whitley will consider how ritual landscapes were structured by metaphysical beliefs about the nature of different landforms, including places that commonly experienced particular geophysical events. It is these such places which were believed to be unusually imbued with supernatural power.

Dr David Whitley is a rock art archaeologist from California. His primary research region is far western North America. Whitley is the author of numerous books including most recently ‘Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography and the Past in South Africa and Beyond’ (2020). He is currently synthesizing his last 40+ years of research in the Coso Range.

Lecture made possible through a US Fulbright grant and Dr Catherine Namono.

Tickets on webtickets or at the door. R70 adults, R40 students/pensioners. https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1551509609

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