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Giribes plains, north-west Namibia. Composite image by Sian Sullivan & Mike Hannis, using

Southern Deserts 6 Bibliography

 

Barberena, R., Mitchell, P., McDonald, J. and Veth, P. (eds.) 2017 Archaeological discontinuities: Comparative perspectives for the southern hemisphere. Special Issue Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 46: 1–100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.08.007

 

Benjamin, J., O’Leary, M., McCarthy, J., Reynen, W., Wiseman, C., Leach, J., Bobeldyk, S., Buchler, J., Karmeen, P., Langley, M. C., Black, A., Hiro, Y., Parnum, I., Stevens, A., Ulm, S., McDonald, J., Veth, P. and Bailey, G. 2023 Stone artefacts on the seabed at a submerged freshwater spring confirm a drowned cultural landscape in Murujuga, Western Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 313: 108190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108190

 

Haboucha, R. and Jofré, D. 2021 Safeguarding Indigenous heritage in the Chilean Atacama Desert: negotiating identity claims and community perceptions of long-term climate change. Heritage & Society 14(2-3): 216–241,
https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2022.2110375

 

Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. 2024 Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa, pp. 23–34 in Kryder-Reid, E. and May, S. (eds.) Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice. London: Routledge, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003365259-4/extraction-old-new-toxic-legacies-mining-desert-southwestern-africa-mike-hannis-sian-sullivan

 

Kinahan, J. 2001[1991] Pastoral Nomads of the Namib Desert: The People History Forgot. Windhoek: Capital Press.

 

Kinahan, J. 2020 Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press.

 

Kinahan, JHA 1992 By Command of Their Lordships: The Exploration of the Namibian Coast by the Royal Navy, 1795-1895. Windhoek: Namibia Archaeological Trust.

 

Kinahan, JHA 2017 ‘No need to hear your voice, when I can talk about you better than you can speak about yourself…’ Discourses on knowledge and power in the !Khuiseb Delta on the Namib Coast, 1780-2016 CE. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21(2): 295–320, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26174274

 

Kinahan, J. and Kinahan, J.H.A. 2006 Preliminary report on the late Holocene archaeology of the Awasib-Gorrasis basin complex in the southern Namib desert. Studies in the African Past 5: 1–14, https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/sap/article/view/2679

 

Kinahan, J.H.A. and Kinahan, J. 2009 ‘A thousand fine vessels are ploughing the main …’ Archaeological traces of the nineteenth-century ‘Guano Rage’ on the south-western coast of Africa. Australasian Historical Archaeology 27: 43–54, https://asha.org.au/pdf/australasian_historical_archaeology/27_04_Kinhan_and_Kinn.pdf

 

Kryder-Reid, E. and May, S. (eds.) Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice. London: Routledge

 

Latz, P. 1995 Bushfires and Bushtucker: Aboriginal Plant Use in Central Australia. Alice Springs: IAD Press.

 

Lewis-Williams, J.D. and Pearce, D.G. 2004 San Spirituality: Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences. Oxford: Alamira Press.

 

McDonald, J. and Mulvaney, K. 2023 (eds.) Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming: A long and short history of this cultural landscape with reference to rock art, stone features, excavations and historical sites recorded across the Dampier Archipelago between 2014 and 2018. Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing.

 

McDonald, J. and Veth, P. 2011 Western Desert iconography: rock art mythological narratives and graphic vocabularies. Diogenes 58(3): 7–21.

 

McDonald, J. and Veth, P. 2012 The social dynamics of aggregation and dispersal in the Western Desert, pp. 90–102 in McDonald, J. and Veth, P. (eds.) Companion to Rock Art. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

McDonald, J.J. and Veth, P.M. 2013 The archaeology of memory: the recursive relationship of Martu rock art and place. Anthropological Forum 23(4): 1–19.

 

Odendaal, W. and Werner, W. (eds.) 2020 ‘Neither Here Nor There’: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-independence Namibia. Windhoek: Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre.

 

Paterson, A., Shellam, T., Veth, P., Mulvaney, K., Anderson, R., Dortch, J. and McDonald, J. 2019 The Mermaid? Re-envisaging the 1818 exploration of Enderby Island, Murujuga, Western Australia. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 15: 284–304, https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2019.1604007

 

Ross, J., Davidson, I., Rosenfeld, A., Morwood, M. and Beck, W. 2004 Rock Art, Ritual and Relationships: An Archaeological Analysis of Rock Art From the Central Australian Arid Zone. Armidale: University of New England, https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18511

 

Ross, J. and Davidson, I. 2006 Rock art and ritual: an archaeological analysis of rock art in arid central Australia. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 13: 304–340, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20177544

 

Smith, M. and Hesse, P. 2005 23°S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press.

 

Sullivan, S. 1999 Folk and formal, local and national: Damara cultural knowledge and community-based conservation in southern Kunene, Namibia. Cimbebasia 15: 1–28.

 

Sullivan, S. 2022 Maps and memory, rights and relationships: articulations of global modernity and local dwelling in delineating land for a communal-area conservancy in north-west Namibia. Conserveries Mémorielles: Revue Transdisciplinaire 25 Special Issue ‘Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts | Histoires Perturbées, Passés Retrouvés’, edited by Sullivan, S., Baussant, M., Dodd, L., Otele, O. and Dos Santos, I., https://journals.openedition.org/cm/5013

 

Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2021. Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes: genealogies, ancestral agencies, and healing, pp. 139–190 in Dieckmann, U. (ed.) Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa. Bielefeld: Transcript, https://www.transcript-open.de/doi/10.14361/9783839452417-006 

 

Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2022 !Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: A cultural history through three photographed encounters. Journal of the Namibian Scientific Society 69: 115–139.

 

Sullivan, S. and Low, C. 2014 Shades of the rainbow serpent? A KhoeSān animal between myth and landscape in southern Africa – ethnographic contextualisations of rock art representations. The Arts 3(2): 215-244 (special issue on World Rock Art), https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/3/2/215

 

Taçon, P.S.C., May, S.K., McDonald, J. and Fredricks, U. 2022 Histories of Australian Rock Art Research. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

 

Veth, P., McDonald, J. and Hiscock, P. 2022 Beyond the barriers: a new model for the settlement of Australian deserts, pp. 917–946 in McNiven, I.J. and David, B. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.32

 

Veth, P.M. and Walsh, F.J. 1988 The concept of ‘staple’ plant foods in the Western Desert region of Western Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2: 19–25.

 

Weinberg, M. and Figueroa, V. 2024 Politics of mining: toxic heritage in the Atacama Desert, pp. 109–124 in Kryder-Reid, E. and May, S. (eds.) Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice. London: Routledge, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003365259-13/politics-mining-toxic-heritage-atacama-desert-marina-weinberg-valentina-figueroa  

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