Sid Tafler
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | writer |
| Introduction | Sid Tafler is a writer based in Victoria, BC. He has studied and written extensively about ancient and indigenous people. He has a particular interest in the Stone Age era of 40,000 to 30,000 years ago, when two species of humans, Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal, lived in Europe and Asia. He has visited cave art sites in France and prehistoric sites in North America, Europe and the Middle East. His article Old Man in the New World, about Kennewick Man, won a Western Magazine Award. |
| Favorite movies | Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
| Favorite books | Chauvet Cave, The Art of Earliest Times by Jean Clottes, The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Brian Fagan, Cave art : a guide to the decorated Ice Age caves of Europe by Paul Bahn, The Creative Explosion by John Pfeiffer |