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Evaluating rock art imagery and other related disoveries of a woven (textile) hunting disguise. Forager / hunter gatherer California, Great Basin or the American Southwest? However, anywhere in...
07 March 2018 1,495 1 View
A student of cross-cultural hunter gatherer cosmology, I am tempted to apply certain themes that appear to be repeated and may ulluminate our understanding the meaning and function of prehistoric...
23 January 2018 7,494 3 View
New efforts to deconstruct the metaphoric meanings of ancient indigenous symbols are being recognized. Carolyn Boyd's new book on the White Shaman mural of the Pecos Tradition claims working...
28 November 2017 9,180 10 View
This is a very controversial topic. Which of the following do you feel has been the most effective in dating rock art for you. Superimposition, seriation, subject matter, radiocarbon dating,...
23 August 2017 1,411 10 View
There has been a great deal of controversy surround the interpretation of prehistoric rock art images. A number of different explanatory models have been applied. What do you feel are the most...
16 August 2017 9,381 2 View
Is this synthesis and collaboration helpful? Are any of the results and insights of value and help us to better understand and deconstruct the meaning and function of rock art? Or are these...
07 July 2017 7,978 15 View
Some say the only forms of religion for foragers was shamanism, totemism and animism. What about this thing we call the "hunting religion" and what about the generative and renewal attributes of...
22 January 2017 5,829 37 View
I have begun reading and thinking deeply on this subject. The works of Esther Jacobsen Tepfer have caused me to rethink some of my studies within eastern California and the Coso Region and to...
30 December 2016 2,865 12 View
Please comment and provide examples of how hunter gatherers feel, relate and think about the relationships they have with the animal world. Both to animals that they slay for meat and those that...
16 November 2016 4,366 8 View
Several scholars have attempted to place the figure of the Animal Master or Mistress within the context of the cosmology of indigenous people. There appears to be growing evidence of a worldwide...
29 April 2016 6,918 27 View
Subsistence? Ritual? Shamanism? Cosmology? Oral traditions?
08 April 2016 3,970 18 View
Are these studies relevant? Can they contribute anything to our contemporary industrial society? What types of people would see our academic and conservation efforts to be of value?
06 February 2016 9,431 97 View
I would be interested in the specifics. What did you do and when? How did your effort turn out? Were there independent means of cross checking your derived dates? What did it cost? Was it a...
22 December 2015 8,334 5 View
We have attempted to do this and are recently now aware of such interpretation relating to the Altai. Are there others? I thought it possible in the American Southwest rock art and saw reference...
22 December 2015 9,261 11 View
There was an article that argued for a very short period from 12800 to 13500 then another saying it had to at least be 1,000 years. Can either of these chronological frameworks be considered...
10 December 2015 4,395 9 View
How much weight should be placed on ethnographic analogy? Direct interpretation of subject matter? Cross cultural studies of rock art? Cognitive neuroscience? Semiotics? Comparative religion? Other?
25 November 2015 4,043 11 View
Do you believe in portable XRF dating of desert varnish? Do you think that associated dates for single component sites spatially associated with the rock art are reasonable? What techniques have...
22 November 2015 9,268 16 View
Linguistic prehistory is a remarkable subject. It integrates with many other disciplines: archaeology, historical and comparative linguistics, lexicostatistical dating, glottochronology,...
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