Join us on this week’s episode, as Alan sits down with Dr. George Harold Nash, a prominent specialist in the field of prehistoric rock art from the University of Liverpool. Dr. Nash has extensive experience in researching rock art in places across the world, the US and South America. He’s currently working in Rising Star Cave in South Africa and several Upper Palaeolithic caves in his native South Wales.

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In this week’s episode, Dr Garfinkel talks to Salisu Aminu, rock art scholar, guard and advocate for the preservation and conservation of rock art in Nigeria. They discuss Salisu’s professional work, his passion and strategy for preserving the archaeological past, and how this work has helped the indigenous people of Nigeria. Salisu Aminu has received multiple awards and recognition for his work in rock art research. He has also been featured on the Bradshaw foundation website.

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Dr. Garfinkel brings Jose Botello back on the show to talk about his master’s work at Cal State Northridge. They talk about ceremonial dance, cosmology, and what it means to live and walk the “red road”.

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Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay from Guanajuato, Mexico one of our most popular guest scholars, is back for a discussion on the Supernatural Gamekeeper. Much to say about this figure and how they are rendered on stone canvasses, what they mean, who they are, and what we can learn from Native people regarding the protective and abiding deities that ensure nourishment and sustainability for our indigenous brothers and sisters. Great discussion!

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Today we have our guest scholar, Dr. Richard Chacon, who has just published a remarkable book on supernatural gamekeepers throughout the world. We're going to talk about how that relates to rock art and other related matters in terms of the pre-contact, pre-literate indigenous cosmology.

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On this episode we interview Katie Olsen who lives in Ridgecrest, California. On the edge of the Coso Range and a stone's throw away from Little Lake and Fossil Falls - prominent rock art locations in the Coso Range. She shares her feelings and background as a woman and female and mother with academic training in art history as she helps us to understand the rock art of the Cosos with a special emphasis on the animal humans that are patterned and solid bodied and expresses an explicit emphasis on the female side of the human experience.

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Rayette Martin from the Nevadans for Cultural Preservation joins the podcast to talk about the work they are doing and how they are preserving rock art in Nevada.

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Chris Finefrock is a director and producer of cinematic masterpieces. He is now working on a new project featuring in part the Native worldviews and religious metaphors that are represented in archaeological sites, geoglyphs, and rock art sites. In this episode we do a wide-ranging discussion on what makes these topics so engaging and why rock art is such an endlessly interesting subject. Quite the ride!

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