| Deciphering ancient minds JD Lewis-Williams, S Challis Thames and Hudson Limited, 2011 | 156* | 2011 |
| Creolisation on the nineteenth-century frontiers of southern Africa: a case study of the AmaTola ‘Bushmen’in the Maloti-Drakensberg S Challis Journal of Southern African Studies 38 (2), 265-280, 2012 | 132 | 2012 |
| Threads of light: re-examining a motif in southern African San rock art JD Lewis-Williams, G Blundell, W Challis, J Hampson The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 123-136, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| Reconfiguring hunting magic: Southern Bushman (San) perspectives on taming and their implications for understanding rock art M McGranaghan, S Challis Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26 (4), 579-599, 2016 | 82 | 2016 |
| The impact of the horse on the AmaTola ‘bushmen’: new identity in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of Southern Africa, University of Oxford, 2008 W Challis Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 44 (1), 156-157, 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| 'The men with rhebok's heads; they tame elands and snakes’: Incorporating the rhebok antelope in the understanding of Southern African rock art W Challis South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 9, 11-20, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Binding beliefs: the creolisation process in a 'Bushman' raider group in nineteenth-century southern Africa S Challis The courage of ||Kabbo and a century of Specimens of Bushman folklore, 246-264, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| ‘Rain snakes’ from the Senqu River: new light on Qing's commentary on San rock art from Sehonghong, Lesotho S Challis, J Hollmann, M McGranaghan Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48 (3), 331-354, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| The rock art of Bongani Mountain Lodge and its environs, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: an introduction to problems of southern African rock-art regions J Hampson, W Challis, G Blundell, C De Rosner The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 15-30, 2002 | 45 | 2002 |
| Joseph Millerd Orpen's' A Glimpse into the Mythology of the Maluti Bushmen': a contextual introduction and republished text M McGranaghan, S Challis, D Lewis-Williams Southern African Humanities 25 (1), 137-166, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| A 'first' glimpse into the Maloti Mountains: the diary of James Murray Grant's expedition of 1873-74 P Mitchell, S Challis Southern African Humanities 20 (2), 399-461, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
| Re-tribe and resist: the ethnogenesis of a creolised raiding band in response to colonisation. S Challis Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Critical Enquiry into the Traces of the …, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
| Fishing in the rain: control of rain-making and aquatic resources at a previously undescribed rock art site in highland Lesotho S Challis, P Mitchell, J Orton Journal of African Archaeology 6 (2), 203-218, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| Creolization in the investigation of rock art of the colonial era S Challis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art 1, 611-633, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| The ‘interior world’of the nineteenth-century Maloti-Drakensberg mountains R King, S Challis The Journal of African History 58 (2), 213-237, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Taking the reins: The introduction of the horse in the nineteenth century Maloti-Drakensberg and the protective medicine of baboons. S Challis The Eland's People: Essays in Memory of Patricia Vinnicombe., 104-107, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| The ‘bullets to water’belief complex: a pan-southern African cognate epistemology for protective medicines and the control of projectiles B Sinclair-Thomson, S Challis Journal of Conflict Archaeology 12 (3), 192-208, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| High and mighty: a San expression of excess potency control in the high-altitude hunting grounds of southern Africa S Challis Time and Mind 12 (3), 169-185, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Truth in error: an enigmatic 19th century San comment on southern African rock paintings of ‘lions’& ‘shields’ JD Lewis-Williams, S Challis Before farming 9 (2), 1-13, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa: “The Disconnect” S Challis, B Sinclair-Thomson Current Anthropology 63 (S25), S91-S127, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
Jamie HampsonProfessor of Rock Art and Indigenous Heritage, University of ExeterVerified email at exeter.ac.uk
