OriginsNet Publications
- ️Wed Nov 28 2007
Overview of Four Eras of Evolution
of Art, Religion, Mind and Psyche
,,,,,Oldowan
,,,,,Early Paleolithic
,,,,,Middle Paleolithic
.....Upper Paleolithic
THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS AND "WORKS IN PROGRESS" ARE AVAILABLE AS PDF FILES:
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EVOLUTION OF ART, RELIGION, CULTURE
Harrod, J. (forthcoming). The Case for Chimpanzee Religion -- Presents first comprehensive arguments for existence of chimpanzee spirituality, four modes of religious ritual, proto-metaphoric behavior with respect to transcendence; proposes de-anthropocentric cross-species definition of religion. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
The following pdf is Online Supporting Material for this article.
.......Harrod, J. (2009). Appendices for Chimpanzee Spirituality: A Concise
.......Database from Review of the Literature:
......Table 1. Chimpanzee Basic Spiritual Practices
......Table 2. Chimpanzee Life-Instinct Spiritual Practices
......Table 3. Chimpanzee Social Cooperation Practices
......Table 4. Chimpanzee Techno-Economic Practices
......Table 5. Proto-Symbolic Communicative Behaviors
......Chmpanzee Database References
Harrod, J. (2006). Periods of Globalization over 'The Southern Route’ in Human Evolution (Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Sahul and East Asia): A Meta-Review of Archaeology and Evidence for Symbolic Behavior. Mother Tongue
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The following file contains the Synoptic Database for this article: 'Synoptic Database for Southern Route Globalizations across Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia, SE Asia and East Asia.'
....................................PDF FILE (312K) This is a pdf file of the pre-press version of the Synoptic Database.
The following 5 files are Online Supporting Materials for this article. These files are comprehensive Master Matrix tables for over 550 archaeological sites across the five regions of the Southern Route and over 530 bibliographical references used for the published article. Each region synopsis contains every reference to palaeoart/symbolic behavior identified in this meta-review of current research........Harrod, J. (2006). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- AFRICA
.......Harrod, J. (2006). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- SOUTHWEST ASIA
.......Harrod, J. (2006). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- INDIA
.......Harrod, J. (2006). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- SOUTHEAST ASIA and AUSTRALIA
.......Harrod, J. (Update January 2010). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- EAST ASIA
.......Harrod, J. (Update January 2010). SYNOPSIS OF THE PALEOLITHIC -- CENTRAL ASIA/SIBERIA
Harrod, J. (2010). Knocking Down the Straw Man Once Again: Out-of-Africa in the Middle Paleolithic and Siberia as a Test Case. -- Summarizes and updates my 2006 Mother Tongue article. It adds a new database for Central Asia/Siberia and updates the database tables for East Asia.
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ON OLDOWAN ART, RELIGION, LANGUAGE
Harrod, J. (1992). Two Million Years Ago: The Origins of Art and Symbol.
Continuum 2,1:4-29.
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Harrod, J. (2003). Notes on Spoken Oldowan (OLDPL), Including a Meditation on Oldowan Symbolic Art, Marking Motifs, and Concept of the Sacred, manuscript, v. 1, 01.17.03 (16 pages). A reconstruction of a spoken protolanguage for Oldowan Homo habilis.
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Harrod, J. (Coming Soon to this Site) First Religion: Notes Toward an Oldowan Scavenger Theology and the Mimetic Patterns of Oldowan Spirituality
ON EARLY PALEOLITHIC ART, RELIGION, LANGUAGE
Harrod, J. (2007). Bhimbetka Glyphs. In Peddarapu Chenna Reddy (ed), Exploring the mind of ancient man: Festschrift to Robert G. Bednarik, pp. 317-330. New Delhi: Research India Press.
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Harrod, J. (2003). Notes Toward an Early Acheulian Stone Tools Logic Model: Constitutive Operations and Analogies of the Soul - v. 2, 02.06.2003 (6 pages). A suggestion for how fundamental patterns used to shape stone tools 1.5 to 1 million years ago had the capacity to serve as analogues for processes that heal the soul and interpersonal relationships.
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Harrod, J. (2003). Notes on Spoken Early Acheulian (EAPL): Semantic Field and Correspondences to Cognitive Operations in Biface Technology - v. 1, 02.14.2003 (14 pages). A reconstruction of a spoken protolanguage for Early Acheulian Homo erectus.
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Harrod, J. (2002). Notes On Middle Acheulian Spirituality: Stone Tool Logic Structures and Analogies Of The Soul - v. 1, 09.01.2002 (18 pages). Proposes decoding of a Middle Acheulian symbol system 1 million to 500,000 years ago consisting of paired biface symbols presencing two primordial spirit-powers of the universe. With a note on the Abbevillian.
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Harrod, J. (Coming Soon to this Site). Notes on Spoken Middle Acheulian (MAPL): Semantic Field and Correspondences to Biface Symbolism - v.1, 05.15.2003 (pages). An attempt to reconstruct a spoken protolanguage for Middle Acheulian Homo erectus.
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Harrod, J. (Coming Soon to this Site) Five Later Acheulian Symbolic Traditions: Interpretation and Decoding of Palaeoart and Palaeo-Religion (500,000 to 100,000 BP) - v.1, 09.01.2003 (pages). Identifies and interprets the spiritual significance of five distinct symbolic traditions of Later Acheulian Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis.
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Harrod, J. (2004) Deciphering Later Acheulian Period Marking Motifs (LAmrk): Impressions of the Later Acheulian Mind - v.3, updated 11.25.2007(88pages). Presents a comprehensive decoding of extent Later Acheulian markings as a symbolic protolanguage, including review of known occurrences, decoding of basic semiotic structure, and decipherment of motifs.
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Harrod, J. (2007). Keys to Deciphering Later Acheulian Period Marking Motifs (LAmrk) - v2, 11/28/2007 (25 pages). Proposal for a set of key discovery procedures that can enable decoding of Later Acheulian marking motifs.
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Harrod, J. (Coming Soon to this Site). Notes on Reconstructing Spoken Later Acheulian (LAPL), Including Correspondences to Later Acheulian Five Symbolizing Traditions - v.1, 09.01.2003 (pages). An attempt to reconstruct a spoken protolanguage of Later Acheulian Homo erectus.
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ON MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC ART, RELIGION, LANGUAGE
ON UPPER PALEOLITHIC ART, RELIGION, LANGUAGE
Harrod, J. (2004). Deciphering Upper Paleolithic (European): Part 1. The Basic Graphematics—Summary of Discovery Procedures. Revised version of paper presented at Language Origins Society Annual Meeting,1998, and before that at International Rock Art Congress, 1994, and Valcamonica Symposium, 1987. This paper presents a decipherment of a set of geometric signs in UP cave and portable art that constitutes a geometric protolanguage. With images (47 pages).
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Harrod, J. (2004). Deciphering Upper Paleolithic (European): Part 2. Maximal Graphematics and Correspondences to a Reconstruction of Spoken UP(E)—Summary of Phememic-Semantic Discovery Procedures. This paper reconstructs a spoken protolanguage that corresponds to the UP(E) geometric protolanguage deciphered in Part 1 and develops a group-theoretic reanalysis of the basic structure of UP(E). (50 pages)
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Harrod, J. (1997). The Upper Paleolithic "Double Goddess": "Venus" Figurines as Sacred Female Transformation Processes in the Light of a Decipherment of European Upper Paleolithic Language. In J. Marler (Ed.),
From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas, (pp. 481-497). Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends.
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ON MESOLITHIC ART, RELIGION, LANGUAGE
ON NEOLITHIC
Harrod, J. (1981). The Bow: A Techno-Mythic Hermeneutic--Ancient Greece and the Mesolithic. The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 49,3:425-446. (11 pages) An early study that demonstrated one way of reconstructing spiritual principles and values implicit in paradigmatic technological innovations that define an archaeological era. An earlier version of this article was published in Acts of the Valcamonica Symposium III, 1979. This study is one section of a manuscript on Mesolithic Religion that Marija Gimbutas described as "a masterpiece, a splendid example of how mythologists and archaeologists should work together and how it is important to cooperate."
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Berggren, K and Harrod, J. (1996). Understanding Marija Gimbutas. Journal of Prehistoric Religion, Vol. X:70-73. (4 pages) Critique of an Antiquity article that argued against the work of Marija Gimbutas.
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MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS
Harrod, J. (2004). Reconstructing Culinary Codes in Human Evolution and Deconstructing Levi-Strauss on Cooking and Cannibalism - v.2 6.15.2004 (13pp.) -- Reanalyzes Levi-Strauss' theory of the culinary code and cannibalism and proposes stages in the evolution of cooking and culinary symbolism.
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Harrod, J. (2000). Synopsis of Evolution of the Human Mind - 1.9.2000 (3pp.) -- How to put the entire evolution of mind, art and language on a single page!
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Harrod, J. (2002). The Cascade of Technological Evolution - 14.5.2002 (1p.) -- An analytical timeline of the phases and stages of technological and cultural evolution from the Australopithecines to Homo sapiens sapiens, from the Pre-Oldowan to the Upper Paleolithic.
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Categories and Principles of Proto-Art: Hypotheses on Early and Middle Palaeolithic Art, Symbol and Religion - 1.17.2000 (17pp.)
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