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Sojournus Antiquitus era un programa �nico producido en la universidad de Schoolcraft, Livonia, & de las multimedias del vivir-funcionamiento de Michigan los d�as 17,18 de mayo; 19, 1996. Era el proyecto de la hermana al El impacto de f�siles. Fotos: Shekinah Errington (foto izquierda: lado izquierdo de la etapa delante del lienzo ligero: dos teclados electr�nicos, percusi�n africana, y violoncelo, con el monitor del computadora y video. Detr�s del lienzo ligero: 8 agentes y bailarines para el " Shamanic Dance." Foto derecha: derecho de la etapa delante del lienzo ligero: 6 coro de la voz SATB [soprano, alto, tenor, bajo], guitarras cl�sicas y de la acero-secuencia, y mandolina. Detr�s del lienzo ligero: plantilla del lienzo ligero de la pintura de cuevas famosa del toro de Lascaux en Francia para el " Amanecer de Purity" secuencia). Cubierta del programa: Departamento de tecnolog�a de los gr�ficos de computadora de la universidad de Schoolcraft.

• 3 years in the making

• Made possible by a grant from Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Michigan

• Involved over 50 faculty, staff, and students from most of the larger universities and colleges in Southeast Michigan and neighboring Canada (institutions represented included Schoolcraft College; University of Michigan; Cranbrook Institute of Science; University of Windsor, Canada; Central Michigan University; Eastern Michigan University; Wayne State University; and Greenhills School of Ann Arbor)

• Involved many local musicians, dancers, artists, and technicians

• Involved the Michigan Flintknappers and flintknappers from Cranbrook Institute of Science (as well as primitive artifacts on loan from Cranbrook for the Sojournus Antiquitus Pre-Show Gallery).

• Largest theatrical live-performance multimedia program ever produced at the College

• The College devoted an entire semester of its Computer Graphics Technology classes to the project

• Also involved Music, Media, and Computer Information Technology Departments
  

• All three performances were sold out in the intimate 170-seat theater May 17, 18, & 19, 1996.

• Sojournus Antiquitus was in the runnings for a larger production at the 1997 Ann Arbor Summer Festival but lost out to a safer-bet return performance by Ray Charles.
  

Feliks, J. 1996. Sojournus Antiquitus: Paleolithic Journeys through Time, Mind, and Space. (Live-performance multimedia program touching on the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic with a focus on the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe, e.g., Neanderthal people and early modern Homo sapiens). Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI. May 17, 18, & 19, 1996.

Feliks, J. 1998. The Making of Sojournus Antiquitus: A Multidisciplinary Union of Anthropology and the Arts. Presented by Professor Judith Calleja (Central Michigan University) at the Central States Anthropological Society 75th Anniversary Meeting (American Anthropological Association), April 2-5, 1998. Kansas City, Missouri.





PUBLICACIONES DEL AUTORThe "natural representations theory" as it appeared front-projected in the "North Star" sequence of Sojournus Antiquitus and as Figure 1 in The Impact of Fossils ("North Star" sequence colored pencil on illustration board drawings by Joel N. Wilson. Impact of Fossils version by John Feliks with assistance from Shekinah Errington and Gerry Hermann).

Feliks, J. 1998. The impact of fossils on the development of visual representation. Rock Art Research 15: 109-34.

Feliks, J. 2006. Musings on the Palaeolithic fan motif. In P. Chenna Reddy (ed.), Exploring the mind of ancient man: Festschrift to Robert G. Bednarik, 249-66. Research India Press, New Delhi.

Feliks, J. 2008. Phi in the Acheulian: Lower Palaeolithic intuition and the natural origins of analogy. In Bednarik, R. G. and D. Hodgson (eds), Pleistocene palaeoart of the world, pp. 11-31. Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), BAR International Series 1804, Oxford.*

Feliks, J. 2009 (in press). The graphics of Bilzingsleben: Sophistication and subtlety in the mind of Homo erectus. Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), BAR International Series, Oxford.*

Feliks, J. 2009. A Lot of Gold in the Mix: Review of Fragment from a Nonfiction Reader. Pre-publication review of the debut science thriller by Warren Fahy (see quotation on the author's review page under FRAGMENT: Reviews).

Feliks, J. 2009. The idea of protolanguage considered in the context of archaeological evidence. Comment on "From protolanguage to true language," by Blair Bolles. Babel's Dawn [Internet]. Available at: http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_dawn/2009/04/from-protolanguage-to-true-language.html.

Feliks, J. 2009. The handaxe shape in microliths. Comment on "Is a hand ax really a hand ax," by Michael Balter. Origins: a history of beginnings [Internet]. Available at: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/02/is-a-handax-really-a-handax.html.

*(BAR es British Archaeological Reports.)

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