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3 unusual facts about David Lewis


David Lewis-Williams

While still utilising Semiotic theory (particularly the work of Charles Sanders Peirce) as a heuristic device, David's Ph.D. focused upon the various San ritual ceremonies, particularly the Healing or (so called) Trance Dance, and their connection to the rock art.

His book, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Thames & Hudson) won the American Historical Association’s 2003 James Henry Breasted Award.

Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art in the British Isles

This idea was first applied to the petroglyphs on the Neolithic monuments of the British Isles by David Lewis-Williams and T. Dowson.


Bright Promise

Original cast members included the show's star, movie favorite Dana Andrews, with Susan Brown, Paul Lukather, David Lewis, Coleen Gray, Susannah Darrow, Cheryl Miller, and Eric James.

Knowledge argument

The debate that emerged following its publication became the subject of an edited volume — There's Something About Mary (2004) — which includes replies from such philosophers as Daniel Dennett, David Lewis, and Paul Churchland.

The Mind in the Cave

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art is a study of Upper Palaeolithic European rock art written by the archaeologist David Lewis-Williams, then a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.


see also

Dilwyn Lewis

Raised in an orphanage in his birth town of Bridgend in Wales, Dilwyn John David Lewis studied for the ministry in the Church of England at Kelham College but instead became a clothing salesman before embarking on a successful career as a freelance clothing designer in London.

Holding My Own

#"All of Me (Loves All of You)" (Kim Williams, L. David Lewis, Monty Holmes) - 2:44

Hugh Pemberton

Hugh Pemberton qualified MB ChB from the University of Liverpool in 1913 and started working at the David Lewis Northern Hospital in Liverpool.