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Understanding the Meaning of the Sierra de San Francisco Rock Paintings with Artist Elanie Moore - Ep 104

Elanie Moore is a professional artist and she studies the Great Mural Rock Art in Baja California, Mexico. Elanie recounts her first experiences with rock art and how it impacted her. Elanie was actually an art major looking for something to focus on and didn’t want to be just another classical art major. When she heard about the Baja and the rock paintings down there she wanted to know more and was soon hooked on studying them.

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ENCORE Rock Art, Science, and Religion with Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay - Ep 62

ENCORE: On this episode we talk to Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay about his career in rock art. From his homeland of Calcutta, India, to continued graduate studies in Texas, and his current research working out of Guanajuato University in Mexico. They take a deep dive into the mysteries surrounding the relationships of science and religion. Our guest scholar provides up to date thinking on how our minds process images and create emotions relating to our understanding of deities. We delve into just what rock art images mean and how they affect the emotional states of its viewers. Finally, we provide some working hypotheses on what those animal-human figures depicted in prehistoric rock art communicate in terms of their compound metaphors as shamans, ancestors, and deities.

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Gaining Purpose Through the Supernatural with L. Frank Manriquez - Ep 19

On Episode 19 of the rock art podcast we interview L. Frank Manriquez. She is a Native Californian Indian of e Tongva and Ajachamem ancestry. L. Frank is a gifted artist and world class advocate for indigenous people around the world. She is known for her work with Native textiles and material culture, archival work and language revitalization, and she is heavily involved with the recreation of Native American watercraft for her own tribe and others. The episode weaves the tale of her life and passions for communicating what it is to be an Indian and how she gained her life’s purpose through the supernatural realm.

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