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Springhead wrote:Tiompan,
I am fine as well, thanks.
Springhead wrote: To read the essay it may be necessary to purchase the museum brochure, though over a little time it may be accessible gratis. [/quote
I don't think Wynn has an Academia page , which might have been a potential source . Hopefully it will appear somewhere .
Springhead wrote: I suppose Jared Diamond's involvement will not bring ruin to the exhibition.
Springhead wrote:Shawomet,
Thanks for the two links. I would be interested in Dr. Wynn's take on pareidolia, a human condition often used to automatically refute any idea that a stone has ancient human involvement based on the "misled" machinations and wishes of the unfortunate novice who might come across suspected artifacts with aesthetic components, namely figure stones. If pareidolia is an inherited trait from ancient ancestors, should it not be shrugged off as inconsequential to understanding the aesthetics of earlier hominids who may have created the subject pieces? Perhaps this is part of the key to the works of art shown in the Nasher exhibition. The great amount of archaeological work done in Europe, to include excavations, has given figure stones a context and therefore legitimacy that similar finds in North America lack with the search for Pleistocene era folks and their material culture in its infancy.
I hope this exhibition will open minds and hearts about the apparent enigma of the figure stone.
Tiompan wrote:" usually interpreted as a part of a shaman's kit." .
Do you buy that ?
Tiompan wrote:Shiny rocks are attractive to non shamans .
What is the ethnography associating the rocks with shamans ?
Whilst appreciating that the shiny rocks are not rock art , there is a tendency to attribute rock art to shamans , with little or no evidence , and I wondering if this is a similar approach .
If north American, wouldn't they much more likely have been described by the informant(s) as something different from "shaman ",
which is no more appropriate than witch doctor , ( medicine people might be better bet ) .
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