Archaeoastronomy

Linking the Sun and Animal Habits with Bernie Taylor - Ep 56

Bernie Taylor graces the 56th episode of the Rock Art Podcast. Bernie provides an amazing word picture of the journey of our ancestors with respect to religion and science. Including a discussion of rock art, archaeoastronomy, shamanism, animism, and animal habits. What Bernie and Dr. Garfinkel discuss is how the movements of the sun and animal behavior are linked and how rock art is part of the story.

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Indigenous People and Relating to the Cosmos with Dr. Ed Krupp of the Griffith Observatory - Ep 17

Dr. Ed Krupp is Director of the Griffith Astronomical Observatory in Los Angeles, California. He is a world class scholar and is a pioneer in the study of how indigenous people, the world over, relate to the cosmos, saw the celestial realm and provided prehistoric astronomical observatories as sun, moon, and star watchers. These activities are of course memorialized in rock art and in rock features constructed on the land to view the heavens and predict important seasonal changes in the sky world.

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A Lifetime of Rock Art Study with Peter Merlin - Ep 11

In this episode Dr. Alan Garfinkel talks with Peter W. Merlin - an acclaimed author, researcher, rock art explorer, adventurer, freelance journalist, and historian. Merlin has extensive and personal knowledge of rock art resources world-wide and is the author of books for both general and technical audiences. Merlin has appeared in more than a dozen television documentaries on the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, and his public speaking includes numerous presentations.

Merlin will trace his personal background in archaeology, anthropology, and rock art studies and will do a quick overview of his world-wide travels in rock art visitation, discovery, and documentation. We will focus in on his visits and reflections on the UNESCO world heritage rock art sites in the Tassili n'Ajjer - a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya and covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. Since their discovery, more than 15,000 petroglyphs and paintings have been identified representing 10,000 years of human history and environmental change.

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CRAF and ArchaeoAstronomy with Christine Grimaldi Clarkson - Ep 9

On today's show Dr. Garfinkel interviews the Executive Director of the California Rock Art Foundation, Christine Grimaldi Clarkson. Christine was instrumental in the creation and development of the California Rock Art Foundation and was elected by the Board to be the Executive Director of CRAF in March 2018. Christine has been researching and conducting archaeological work in Central California for over 20 years, and also pursues interests in Southwest and Mesoamerican archaeology. Her research has led to the discovery and documentation of an ancient astronomical observation area created by Native Americans in Central California. Articles on this subject have been published in SCA Proceedings and Rock Art Papers.

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