Projectile-Pointed People in Rock Art - Ep 35
What? That's right. Arrowheads, or as archaeologists know them, projectile points, are sometimes carved or painted on rock as parts of people. In this episode we talk about projectile-pointed people and other depictions of projectile points in rock drawings.
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2025
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2024
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2023
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- Jul 28, 2023 Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories - Ep 109
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- Dec 16, 2022 Ancestory: A children's book about rock art - Ep 94
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- Jun 3, 2022 Little Petroglyph Canyon and Rock Art Dating - Ep 83 (5)
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- Apr 29, 2022 Shamanism and Rock Art: A Current View - Ep 80
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- Apr 15, 2022 Shamanism and Cognitive Anthropology with Kevin Stein [Encore] - Ep 78
- Apr 8, 2022 Rock Art in Southeast Asia and the World, an Online Course with Noel Hidalgo Tan - Ep 77
- Apr 1, 2022 Teaching Native American Culture with Gloria Brooks - Ep 76
- Mar 25, 2022 ArchaeoAcoustics With Steve Waller [Encore] - Ep 75
- Mar 18, 2022 Writing about History with Cynthia Waldman - Ep 74
- Mar 11, 2022 Semotics and Rock Art with Trace Fleeman Garcia - Ep 73
- Mar 4, 2022 Reflections on Rock Art with Dr. Chester Liwosz - Ep 72
- Feb 25, 2022 Rock Art of the Sierra de San Francisco with Trudi Angell - Ep 71
- Feb 18, 2022 Middle American Archaeology with John Hoopes - Ep 70
- Feb 11, 2022 New methods for dating rock art with Kirk Astroth - Ep 69
- Feb 4, 2022 Uto-Aztecan Iconisity with Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay - Ep 68
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- Jan 14, 2022 Touring Baja California with Ryan Gerstner - Ep 65
- Jan 7, 2022 New methods for dating rock art with Kirk Astroth (ARCHIVE) - Ep 64
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- Dec 31, 2021 Serpent Imagery in Rock Art - Ep 63
- Dec 24, 2021 ENCORE Rock Art, Science, and Religion with Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay - Ep 62
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- Nov 26, 2021 Southeast Asian Archaeology with Dr. Noel Hidalgo Tan - Ep 59
- Nov 12, 2021 Creating Petroglyph Park in Ridgecrest, CA with Olaf Dowd - Ep 58
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- Oct 1, 2021 Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco - Ep 54
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- Aug 6, 2021 The Rock Art of Los Angeles County with Albert Knight - Ep 48
- Jul 30, 2021 Histories and Rock Art of the Juaneno of San Juan Capistrano, CA - Ep 47
- Jul 23, 2021 Venus figurines with Stephanie Haro - Ep 46
- Jul 16, 2021 Obsidian studies and Coso rock art with Sandy Rogers - Ep 45
- Jun 25, 2021 Living in a Pre-Contact Society with Dr. Richard J. Chacon - Ep 44
- Jun 18, 2021 Shooting a Documentary at Skinwalker Ranch - Ep 43
- Jun 11, 2021 Interview with David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History - Ep 42
- Jun 4, 2021 Linguistic Prehistory with Dr. Alan Garfinkel - Ep 41
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- Aug 21, 2020 Petroglyph Research with Dr. Chester Liwosz - Ep 10
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- Jul 31, 2020 Filming Rock Art with Eran Barnea - Ep 7
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- Jul 10, 2020 Bill Hyder on the Chumash of Southern California - Ep 4
- Jul 3, 2020 ArchaeoAcoustics With Steve Waller - Ep 3
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