[3] In February 2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki mentioned the letter he had received from Parkington, regarding the protection of archaeological heritage sites, in his address at the opening of South Africa's Parliament.

[4] Parkington received his education at Cambridge University where he completed a BA (Hons.)

He completed his MA at Cambridge in 1973 and was appointed Associate Professor of Archaeology at UCT in 1976.

[1] He has been a visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in semesters during 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1995.

[1] In 2002 Parkington started the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project, a sustainable jobs initiative, in which local inhabitants of the area were trained to interpret rock art and act as tour guides.