Theories on 'cup and ring marks'

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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Mar 12, 2008 13:42:47
Replying to 12pointer

There was a great article on the internet by Kevin L Callahan, but the links dont' seem to work any more, which is a great shame. He is / was an anthropologist at the university of Minnesota, and the article was comparing different rock art round the world, I think.

-So that's a pretty pointless posting Rhiannon. But the itself name might help?

There's so many extremely knowledgeable rock art people here that I'm loathe to say anything but I personally like the idea it's all to do with trance states and images people see when they're in them. That's just my twopenn'orth though (I guess lots of theories of all sorts of things reflect the theorist more than the truth).

T tiompan
tiompan Mar 12, 2008 13:49:13
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
There was a great article on the internet by Kevin L Callahan, but the links dont' seem to work any more, which is a great shame. He is / was an anthropologist at the university of Minnesota, and the article was comparing different rock art round the world, I think.

-So that's a pretty pointless posting Rhiannon. But the itself name might help?

There's so many extremely knowledgeable rock art people here that I'm loathe to say anything but I personally like the idea it's all to do with trance states and images people see when they're in them. That's just my twopenn'orth though (I guess lots of theories of all sorts of things reflect the theorist more than the truth).

Dead right Rhiannon , Kevin wrote a lot of good stuff , pity it's gone .I have wondered what happened to him .

H Hob
Hob Mar 12, 2008 14:42:42
Replying to Rhiannon

I missed this thread when it was posted, ta for bumping it Stonelifter.

Rhiannon wrote:
There's so many extremely knowledgeable rock art people here that I'm loathe to say anything
And the best thing is, no matter how much any of them know about RA, no-one really has much of an idea what the carvings actually mean :)

That's a large part of the appeal, just like the stone circles and stuff.

Now that 3 stages of trance theory. We could debate that for a while. Wasn't there a mention of it in the thread about Gyrus' book?

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