| dc.contributor.author | Prins, Marguerite | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-06T08:01:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-06T08:01:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Prins, M. 2005. Exposé or misconstrual? Unresolved issues of authorship and the authenticity of GW Stow’s ‘forgery’ of a rock art painting. TD: The journal for transdisciplinary research in Southern Africa, 1(1):43-58, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605] | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1817-4434 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3845 | |
| dc.description | Dr Marguerite Prins, completed a PhD in history at North-West University in 2005.
It was titled The primordial circle: the prehistoric rock engravings of Redan, Vereeniging.
An earlier draft of this article was presented at a conference of the South
African Association of Art Historians, at the University of Stellenbosch in September
2003. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | George William Stow (1822-1882) is today considered to have been one of
the founding fathers of rock art research and conservation in Southern Africa. He
arrived from England in 1843 and settled on the frontier of the Eastern Cape where
he gradually started specializing in geological exploration, the ethnological history
of the early peoples of the subcontinent and the rock art of the region.
By the 1870s he was responsible for the discovery of the coalfields in the Vaal Triangle
of South Africa.
In recent years Stow’s legacy has been the subject of academic suspicion. Some
rock art experts claim that he made himself guilty of ‘forgery’. In the article the
authors argues in favour of restoring the status of Stow by pointing to the fact that
two mutually exclusive interpretational approaches of rock art, than it is about
an alleged forgery, are at the heart of the attempts at discrediting his work. In the
process, irreparable and undeserving harm has been done to the name of George
William Stow and his contribution to rock art research and conservation in South
Africa. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | GW Stow | en |
| dc.subject | Rock art | en |
| dc.subject | Shamanistic approach | en |
| dc.subject | Geology | en |
| dc.subject | Archaeology | en |
| dc.subject | Heritage conservation | en |
| dc.title | Exposé or misconstrual? Unresolved issues of authorship and the authenticity of GW Stow’s ‘forgery’ of a rock art painting | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
