David Witelson is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. His PhD concentrates on the rock art in and around the Stormberg in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and investigates the network of social performances in which those images participated by theorising the practice of image-making in terms of performance theory. His other research interests include the late Holocene archaeology of southern Africa Later Stone, and he has also published research about southern African stone tools.