Testing the "Three Stages of Trance" Model, Patricia Helvenston, Paul Bahn, John Bradshaw and Christopher Chippindale's 2003 article in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, is a peer reviewed critique of the neuropsychological model widely used to interpret rock art as evidence of altered states of consciousness. Its strength is that it is peer reviewed scholarship in an established archaeology journal, directly engaging and testing the model it critiques. Its limit is that it represents one side of a live scholarly disagreement; a claim resting on the trance model itself should also be checked against its original proponents' own responses.
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Citation
AuthorPatricia A. Helvenston, Paul G. Bahn, John Bradshaw and Christopher Chippindale
PublisherCambridge Archaeological Journal 13(2)
Publication Year2003
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774303000131
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: peer reviewed scholarship in an established archaeology journal directly engaging and testing the model it critiques, one side of a live scholarly disagreement. NotesPeer-reviewed critique of the three stages of trance model in rock art interpretation, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2003.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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