Here’s a roll call for all the books & scholars I gained so much from, in writing the poems in Bone Antler Stone. For some reason a handful are wildly expensive now, so I’ve put an asterisk before those that are still reasonably priced. Although as I discovered in collecting them all (sometimes only being able to photocopy them), handfuls of used copies eventually show up online at a decent cost.

britain beginsAncient Europe, 8000 BC – AD 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, ed. Peter Bogucki and Pam J. Crabtree

**Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze & Iron Ages, by T. Douglas Price

**Britain Begins, by Barry Cunliffe

**Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC – AD 1000, by Barry Cunliffe

 

 

 

 


 

art of the celtsThe Celtic World, ed. Miranda Green

**In Search of Ancient Ireland, by Carmel McCaffrey & Leo Eaton (& DVD series)

Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age, by Barry Raftery

Pagan Celtic Britain, by Anne Ross

**The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, by Barry Cunliffe

**The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, by John Haywood

**The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World, by John Haywood

Art of the Celts: 700 BC – AD 700, ed. Felix Müller

**Agricola & Germany, by Tacitus

 


 

sacred isle**The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved, by P. V. Glob

Through Nature to Eternity: The Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe, by Wijnand van der Sanden

The Celtic Gauls: Gods, Rites and Sanctuaries, by Jean Louis Brunaux

**Symbol & Image in Celtic Religious Art, by Miranda Green

**The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-Shifters, Sorcerers & Spirit Healers in Ancient Europe, by Miranda & Stephen Aldhouse-Green

**The Sacred Isle: Belief & Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland, by Dáithí Ó HÓgáin

 


 

lascauxLascaux: Movement, Space and Time, by Norbert Aujoulat

The Cave of Altamira, ed. Pedro A. Saura Ramos

Return to Chauvet, by Jean Clottes

Journey Through the Ice Age, by Paul Bahn

**Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind, by Randall White

Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material Culture, ed. Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley

 

 

 


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An episode from 5/18/26: Tonight I read about the bear in folklore and mythology from two books everybody should have on their shelves: the Taschen Book of Symbols and the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. Browsing through either puts you in contact with our best stories and, with the Taschen book, some of our best artwork.Next, I read Lord Byron’s (1788-1824) apocalyptic poem Darkness from 1816. You can read more about the volcanic eruption that inspired poem, and produced the “year without summer,” here.Finally, I read a few passages on revelation and the religious experience from the rabbi, theologian and civil rights activist Abraham Joshua Heshel’s (1907-1962) God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism.The best way to support the podcast is by leaving a review on Apple or Spotify, sharing it with others, or sending me a note on what you think. You can also order any of my books: Time and the River: From Columbine to the Invention of Fire, Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. I also have a YouTube channel where I share poems and excerpts from these books, mostly as YouTube shorts.Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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