Articles

Paradigm Shifts, Rock Art Studies, and the “Coso Sheep Cult” of Eastern California

Revised and Updated: By Alan P. Garfinkel, Ph.D.  December 2014   Originally published in: North American Archaeologist, Spring 2007 Edition Alan P. Garfinkel, Ph.D. Principal Archaeologist UltraSystems Environmental agarfinkel@ultrasystems.com avram1952@yahoo.com   Founder and Director California Rock Art Foundation http://www.californiarockart.org   http://www.dralangarfinkel.com     ABSTRACT One of the more spectacular expressions of prehistoric rock art in Read More

Not always the male

By Carl Bjork At a crime scene, the investigator will always ask the question, “who” perpetrated the offense. And, to answer the question you must discover the “why.” What is the motivation; is it cultural or survival, or perhaps the dictates of the mores of the people? When we discover a crime scene; is there Read More

Children of Ammon

By, Carl Bjork http://home.comcast.net/~carlbjork/   Morning –  Were the people who carved the rocks in southwest Nevada the Children of Ammon or the Moab people?  Here is something to play with, no doubt way out on this line of thought.  But it is worth the consideration.  Ever hear of the People of Moqui; the Pueblo Read More

The Angeles National Forest Mystery Rocks

THE ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST MYSTERY ROCKS Written by Christopher Nyerges www.ChristopherNyerges.com Posted by Rick Osmon On Halloween day in 2001, I was leading a birthday outing for a 10 year old boy and his friends at the 3000 foot level of the Angeles National Forest.  We were getting late, so I led them down into the Read More

Ancient Asiatic Writing in North America

ANCIENT ASIATIC WRITING IN NORTH AMERICA By, Dr John Ruskamp For centuries, researchers have been debating if, in pre-Columbian times, meaningful exchanges between the indigenous peoples of Asia and the Americas ever occurred. Periodically, over the past 250 years knowledgeable sinologists and oceanographers have written positively on this topic, yet, so far, no conclusive proof Read More