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153 Acknowledgements The copy of the Linton panel (Fig. 2) was made by Thomas Dowson, Paul den Hoed and Zac Kingdon in 1986 and appears by kind permission of the director of the Iziko South African Museum. The photograph of the Blombos engraved ochre (Fig. 5) appears courtesy of Chris Henshilwood; that of Wilhelm Bleek (Fig. 6) courtesy of Jagger Library, University of Cape Town. The photograph of a San man (Fig. 8) comes from the Marshall family collection by permission of the late Dr Lorna Marshall. The photograph of the San shaman in trance (Fig. 9) appears by permission of Jürgen Schadeberg (ww.jurgen.schadeberg.com; The San of the Kalahari, 2002, Pretoria: Protea Book House). The Van der Byl family permitted publication of the photograph of Mapote’s paintings, now in the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand. Other illustrations of San rock art come from the collections of the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the 154 Witwatersrand. Fig. 15 was made by Harald Pager. Quotations from the Bleek & Lloyd Collection are by permission of Jagger Library, University of Cape Town. David Pearce kindly collated and scanned the illustrations. ...

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