| The signs of all times: entoptic phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic art [and comments and reply] JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson, PG Bahn, RG Bednarik, J Clegg, ... Current Anthropology 29 (2), 201-245, 1988 | 1112 | 1988 |
| Images of power: understanding Bushman rock art JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson Southern book publishers, 1989 | 460 | 1989 |
| Through the veil: San rock paintings and the rock face JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 5-16, 1990 | 353 | 1990 |
| Queer archaeologies TA Dowson Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2000 | 230* | 2000 |
| Reading art, writing history: rock art and social change in southern Africa TA Dowson World Archaeology 25 (3), 332-345, 1994 | 201 | 1994 |
| On vision and power in the Neolithic: evidence from the decorated monuments JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson Current Anthropology 34 (1), 55-65, 1993 | 179 | 1993 |
| Rock engravings of southern Africa TA Dowson University of the Witwatersrand, 1992 | 149 | 1992 |
| Voices from the past: Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection J Deacon, TA Dowson Witwatersrand Univ Pr, 1996 | 148* | 1996 |
| Revelations of religious reality: the individual in San rock art TA Dowson World Archaeology 20 (1), 116-128, 1988 | 123 | 1988 |
| Images of power: Understanding San rock art D Lewis-Williams, T Dowson Southern book publishers, 1999 | 113 | 1999 |
| Rain in Bushman belief, politics, and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the southeastern mountains, southern Africa TA Dowson The Archaeology of Rock-Art, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 73-89, 1998 | 106 | 1998 |
| ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND SHAMANISM IN ROCK ART-REPLY JD LEWISWILLIAMS, TA DOWSON Current Anthropology 31 (1), 80-84, 1990 | 101* | 1990 |
| Debating Shamanism in Southern African Rock Art: Time to Move on... TA Dowson The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 49-61, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| On neuropsychology and shamanism in rock art RG Bednarik, JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson Current anthropology, 77-84, 1990 | 99 | 1990 |
| Re-animating hunter-gatherer rock-art research TA Dowson Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19 (03), 378-387, 2009 | 87 | 2009 |
| Contested images: diversity in southern African rock art research TA Dowson, JD Lewis-Williams, HJ Annegarn Witwatersrand Univ Pr, 1994 | 87* | 1994 |
| Special objects—special creatures: shamanistic imagery and the Aurignacian art of south-west Germany TA Dowson, M Porr The archaeology of shamanism, 165-77, 2001 | 81 | 2001 |
| Dots and dashes: cracking the entoptic code in Bushman rock paintings TA Dowson Goodwin Series, 84-94, 1989 | 81 | 1989 |
| Hunter-gatherers, traders and slaves: the'Mfecane'impact on Bushmen, their ritual and their art TA Dowson The Mfecane aftermath: reconstructive debates in southern African history 51, 70, 1995 | 57 | 1995 |
| Aspects of rock art research: a critical retrospective JD Lewis-Williams, TA Dowson Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research …, 1994 | 57 | 1994 |