Saturday, February 22, 2020
The cycles of Moon and Women to measure time
Cro-Magnon's Language: Emergence of Homo Sapiens,
Invention of Articulated Language, Migrations out of Africa – Kindle Edition
(Kindle Edition)
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU & Ivan EVE
PALEOLITHIC
WOMEN
FOR
GENDERED LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
(Kindle
Edition)
A REVIEW OF
ALEXANDER
MARSHACK – THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION – Red & AUGed EDITION – 1991
Dr. Jacques
COULARDEAU
Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
ASIN : B083P5XT6R
PREVIEWING
TEASER
Alexander Marshack's book was first written in 1968 and published soon
after. The present edition I have explored was entirely re-edited and upgraded
by the author in 1991. The research, and the fieldwork, for this book, were
done essentially after the Second World War at a time when new techniques and
technology were emerging in archaeological research. Marshack assumed what was
available and used that the best he could, and as such was able to bring Ice
Age archaeology to a new level of understanding. But we must not measure what
he wrote and published with the criteria and parameters we can use today in this
field where technology and actual research have been speeding up so fast over
the last ten or twenty years that have brought up more than the previous
seventy years. Yet we have to assess Marshack’s work within the context of
today’s knowledge showing not what he missed, but what he could not know, hence
centering our evaluation on what he was able to do and he could have done with
what he had at his disposal.
What appears clearly today in the field of Paleolithic archaeology is
that we need to develop two levels of analysis that were systematically missing
before. The first one is linguistic. All these paleolithic paintings,
engravings, and sculptures were associated with some language, to be described,
to be designated and to be used in what probably was serious rituals. That
language was in Europe a set of Turkic dialects that have been saved today by
becoming Basque.
But the next development needed today is to understand the social, and
cultural position of women in this society only guided by the need to survive
and the need to expand. Women were the key and center of this urgency. That's
what Alexander Marshack saw and was not able to exploit, explore, understand. And that's what this book is all about.
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:19 PM 
