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Shooting a Documentary at Skinwalker Ranch - Ep 43

Dr. Garfinkel was invited by the History Channel to fly out to Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah to talk about the features there. On this episode we get a behind-the-scenes look at filming a TV show and we learn something about the area.

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Linguistic Prehistory with Dr. Alan Garfinkel - Ep 41

On today’s episode we talk about the ideas behind Dr. Garfinkel’s dissertation. He used linguistics to determine some interesting things about the early peopling of the Americans.

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Migration Patterns and Habits of Big Horn Sheep with Carlos Gallinger - Ep 40

Carlos Gallinger joins the podcast again as a Big Horn Sheep expert. He talks about modern migration patterns of the animal and how that can help archaeologists find petroglyphs and understand better the prehistoric people that hunted and revered them.

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Bighorn Sheep and Shamanism in Rock Art with Dr. Alan Garfinkel - Ep 38

Bighorn sheep were and are a major source of food, religion, and spirituality in many parts of the Americas. Dr. Garfinkel has studied rock art and shamanism in the Coso range of southeastern California and the surrounding areas and has a lot to say on this topic.

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Ghost Dance Rock Art and Theology - Ep 36

The ghost dance was a revitalistic movement that was most popular in the 1870s and 1890s. The religious leaders of the ghost dance movement were religious specialists who dreamed a prophetic vision. That vision included that the world was to be remade over and that the dead would come back to life and the world would return to the way it was before your Americans entered their lands. To usher in that New World native people were to dance around dance for several days day and night and that by praying and dancing and singing this would bring in a new world of peace and prosperity.

Anthropologists and archaeologists have identified about two dozen rock art sites that appear to commemorate or document this time of the religious movement of the ghost dance. These historic paintings are in many colors and depict dancers and the return of animals and plants and the return of the dead. The paintings also document and portray the principal religious beliefs of the participants in the movement which include a layered cosmos a depiction of the Thunderbird BighornSheep and other animals and a central white horse image.

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