Patricia Vinnicombe (1932–2003) was a South African archaeologist and artist, known for identifying and copying San rock paintings in the valleys and foothills of the Drakensberg.
Selected publications
Vinnicombe, Patricia (1 February 2013). People of the Eland. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press Publication. ISBN 9781868144976.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. People of the eland: rock paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a reflection of their life and thought. University of Natal Press, 1976.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. "Myth, motive, and selection in southern African rock art." Africa 42.03 (1972): 192-204.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. "Rock-painting analysis." The South African Archaeological Bulletin (1967): 129-141.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. "Petroglyphs of the Dampier Archipelago: background to development and descriptive analysis." (2002): 3.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. "Motivation in African rock art." Antiquity 46.182 (1972): 124-133.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. Dampier archaeological project: resource document, survey and salvage of aboriginal sites, Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia: for Woodside Offshore Petroleum Pty Ltd. Western Australia Museum, 1987.
Vinnicombe, Patricia "The ritual significance of eland (Taurotragus oryx) in the rock art of southern Africa." Les religions de la préhistoire: actes du Valcamonica symposium. 1975.
Vinnicombe, Patricia. "A Bushman hunting kit from the Natal Drakensberg." Southern African Humanities 20.3 (1971): 611-25.
