A diffusionist analysis tracing the squatting ‘hocker’ motif and Heraldic Woman from Göbekli Tepe through Luristan bronzes, Maori lintels, and Aboriginal Australia.
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.
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.
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.
A diffusionist deep dive tracing masked ritual from a single Levantine hearth—stone masks and plastered skulls—to a global grammar of spirit embodiment.
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.
A concise case for historical links between Australian bullroarer–initiation and PNG Tambaran/flute cults, framed by Sahul-era connectivity.
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.
Integrating Venus figurines, goddess myths, and X-chromosome sweeps to re-evaluate women’s possible leadership in early human culture.
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.