Alan Philip Garfinkel

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Can a researcher apply historic ethnographic data to ancent prehistoric art?

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 7,346 3 View

Can we decipher/decode and interpret prehistoric rock art images? What kinds of explanatory methods have been successfully applied?

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...

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What is the role of the Master of the Animals in the depiction of animal-human figures in religious expressions worldwide?

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 6,748 27 View

Lingusitic prehistory is one of my favored research themes. What do my colleagues know about this subject. Does it have relevance?

Linguistic prehistory is a remarkable subject. It integrates with many other disciplines: archaeology, historical and comparative linguistics, lexicostatistical dating, glottochronology,...

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