A diffusionist analysis tracing the squatting ‘hocker’ motif and Heraldic Woman from Göbekli Tepe through Luristan bronzes, Maori lintels, and Aboriginal Australia.
Prehistory - Research Articles
The Paleolithic Tech-Tree of the Americas (Sites, Tools, “Modes,” and Cultural Signals)
A site-by-site, table-heavy guide to Paleolithic technologies and cultural signals across North & South America, mapped to Old World lithic “modes” and traditions.
Mid-Century Pre-Clovis Claims—and Why They Fell
A forensic tour of mid-20th-century pre-Clovis claims—what was alleged, how it unraveled, and what finally cracked the Clovis-first orthodoxy—for readers tracking the peopling of the Americas.
Stories, Then the Story of ‘I’: EToC across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
A two-stage account of consciousness: language and stories coalesce ~60 ka; the narrative ‘I’ emerges in the Holocene via women-led serpent ritual networks and pronoun tech.
Masks Before Masks: A Diffusionist History of the Ritual Face
A diffusionist deep dive tracing masked ritual from a single Levantine hearth—stone masks and plastered skulls—to a global grammar of spirit embodiment.
Emergence Myths, Female Agency, and Deep Time
Do emergence-style creation myths reach back to the Paleolithic? A critical synthesis of phylogenetic work, Pueblo/Andean data, and Paleolithic ‘Venus’ iconography that centers women as cosmogenic agents.
Sahul’s Mystery Cults: Bullroarers, the Dreaming, and the Tambaran
A concise case for historical links between Australian bullroarer–initiation and PNG Tambaran/flute cults, framed by Sahul-era connectivity.
The Incest Taboo as a Decisive Human Technology
A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.
The Primordial Matriarchy and the Gendered Evolution of Consciousness
Integrating Venus figurines, goddess myths, and X-chromosome sweeps to re-evaluate women’s possible leadership in early human culture.
Göbekli Tepe Snakes
An in-depth examination of the serpent reliefs at Göbekli Tepe (c 9600–8200 BCE), their ritual context, and the possibility that they foreshadow the Eden serpent-and-tree complex—read through the lens of the Eve Theory of Consciousness.