Sam Challis | |
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 Sam Challis (2024) | |
| Born | William Robert Challis December 12, 1973 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Durham University (BA) University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil) |
| Notable work | Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Thesis | The impact of the horse on the AmaTola ‘bushmen’: new identity in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of Southern Africa (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Mitchell |
William Robert (Sam) Challis FRAI FSA (born 12 December 1973) is a British archaeologist. He is Director of the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Challis graduated with a BA in Archaeology from the University of Durham in 1996, and later earned an MSt (2003) and a DPhil at the University of Oxford (2008). [1] He wrote his DPhil thesis on the impact of horses on hunter-gatherer bushmen in Southern Africa. [2]
He describes his main research interest as the expression of 'the interaction between hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and farmers, as well as Europeans' in global rock art. [3]
He is a Research Affiliate of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan, and also an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. [3] [4]
He co-authored Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art with David Lewis-Williams. [5] [6] [7]
