AR96. 16 August 2005.
Copyright © 2005 by Kevin Sharpe and Leslie Van Gelder.
To appear in a Festschrift for Alexander Marshack.

 

Beyond Internal Analysis: What Flutings Can Tell

 

by

Kevin Sharpe

Graduate College, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Harris Manchester College, Oxford University

10 Shirelake Close, Oxford OX1 1SN, United Kingdom
ksharpe@ksharpe.com

www.ksharpe.com

 

and

Leslie Van Gelder

Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota

10 Shirelake Close, Oxford OX1 1SN, United Kingdom
lvangeld@waldenu.edu


What’s the progeny of internal analysis? Alex set the stage. Lead to Bednarik, d’Errico, Lorblanchet, etc. Our work a continuation further.

What our method is.

What it’s yielded in both caves:

·        The big stuff:

o       Children

o       Woman and child

o       Number of people in Gargas and Rouffignac

o       Tectiforms

o       artists – flutings to drawings

Where we’ve got to and where we’re going: questions that are answerable, not blinding by jumping into old paradigms.