ABSTRACT
Since the late 1960s southern African archaeologists have given considerable attention to prehistoric subsistence strategies and seasonal mobility (Carter 1970; Deacon 1969, 1976; Parkington 1972), but the ideological aspects of these strategies have not been considered. Although researchers sometimes refer to rock art as a possible though obscure source of ideological data, they do not seem to believe it possible to reconstruct prehistoric ideology with any confidence.
