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Web Picks: Shamanism connection is bilge, says Paul Bahn. No it isn't, says Gyrus!

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 May 2005  Page Views: 3303
Rock Art (Petroglyphs) Type: Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art

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Rock art has recently begun to cause more than a little conflict in academic archaeology. Paul Bahn doesn't mince his words in this interview. The editor of Oxbow's new book on rock art studies, discusses the latest research into rock art and shamanism, and reveals where he thinks it has all gone wrong.

The interesting-substances-induced side of the argumant is put by Gyrus, in Form & Meaning in Altered States & Rock Art.

So who's right, what do you think?

Note: Following the second part of BBC2's How Art Made the World, and in the best TV tradition, this item bears a repeat viewing
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Re: Shamanism connection is bilge, says Paul Bahn. No it isn't, says Gyrus! (Score: 1)
by arthur on Friday, 12 December 2003
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Re: Shamanism connection is bilge, says Paul Bahn. No it isn't, says Gyrus! (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 30 March 2005
Ey up Gyrus!
Anyone who reckons there's no shamanistic relationship with rock-art is either stupid or stupid! This aint to say our British cup-and-rings are shamanistic. I for one don't think they are - though they DO relate to an indigenous Dreamtime psychography. But then, so does a great deal else of our Neolithic heritage, from standing stones to wells. Let's just make sure we understand what this 'ere shamanism stuff actually is - and for god sake don't confuse it with ANY of the modern new-age drivel.
Bennett!
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Re: Shamanism connection is bilge, says Paul Bahn. No it isn't, says Gyrus! (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 20 May 2005
A few things to consider. One would have to have access to all the sites where "Rock Art" has been discovered, as there are so many repetative symbols worldwide, and being "high" one would have to carve or pockmark with accuracy these very same symbols into stone- I'd love to see one of these so called "experts" do that while they're "HIGH"-

I'm with Thom and Brennan anyday !!!!
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