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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Vermillion - USA/ *Canada 1946
Dr. Brian Leigh Molyneaux is an archaeologist, writer and photographer. He is a specialist in art and ideology, the human use of landscape, and environmental approaches to technology. At the University of South Dakota, he is Director of the Archaeology Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Missouri River Institute. He is also a Field Associate of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. He received his M.A. in Art and Archaeology from Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Southampton/UK in 1991.
His extensive fieldwork includes many years of travel in northern Canada, studying Algonkian rock art, ritual and religion, and extensive archaeological research in the northern Great Plains. He recently conducted two years of archaeological research at Devils Tower, Wyoming, one of the most important sacred places in the Great Plains.
Dr. Molyneaux has published numerous articles and several major international books in his field. In 1994 he completed, as co-editor, "The Presented Past" (a study of representations of the past in museums and schools around the world); in 1995 he published his first monograph, "The Sacred Earth" (a study of earth-centred spirituality). In 1996 he co-authored, with Larry Zimmerman, "Native North America" (a detailed survey of North American Indian culture, past and present). In 1997, he edited and contributed to "The Cultural Life of Images" (a study of pictures and other visual representations of the past in archaeology). In 2000, the University of Oklahoma Press republished an updated version of "Native North America", and Advantage Publishers produced "Sacred Earth, Sacred Stones", co-authored with Piers Vitebsky. In 2001, he published "Mythology of the Americas", co-authored with Dr. Paul Jones.
His rock art photographs have appeared as part of collaborations with Tom Sherman (Toronto 1978: "1 Traditional Methodology for Processing Information"; "Writing from Photographs") and at Sherman's National Gallery of Canada Retrospective (1983: "Cultural Engineering"). They also appeared in the BBC/PBS television series, "Land of the Eagle".
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