Talk:David Lewis-Williams

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This article is a common knowledge biography of an academic and therefore does not infringe upon any copyright or patent laws. This article is also a work in progress and will be amended and added to in the coming weeks (including references, pictures and published work). Bmpdragon 16:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * You are grossly misinformed, this article is a complete copy and paste of this| article. That is a violation of the policies of Wikipedia, which were clearly explained on your talk page, had you bothered to read them. You cannot take anything from the Internet and respost it here unless you have been given permission to do so. Perhaps you should have read the information provided before writing your reply. If you want to write a biography about this man, then you need to start over. In it's present state, this article will be deleted. --  Cyrus      Andiron   16:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I have edited this page to make it more acceptable to Wikipedia's criteria and policies. As I mentioned before, this article is a work in progress and will be amended and added to in the coming weeks as I gather more information and references. Bmpdragon 17:44, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your contributions to this article on an interesting and important individual. Please read Copyrights, however: It is not acceptable to simply rewrite parts of text you have copied and pasted from another website: You have to rewrite all of it. I have gone through the text, and removed everything that exactly copies the text from the site. This leaves the article a little thin, but it shouldn't be too much work to write original text based on the other biography without copying it verbatim. I've also categorised the article and wikilinked to ǀXam. Anyway, please do read Copyrights and Verifiability before continuing to work on this article. Thanks. -Kieran 21:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * @Cyrus Andiron 2601:196:4A00:6740:703E:D826:B992:732C (talk) 17:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Please don't blank the talk page
Please don't blank the talk page - it contains useful information. When it becomes too unwieldy and discussions have been completed, which doesn't appear to be the case at present, it can be archived, preserving it for future readers. Thanks -- Kateshort forbob  15:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Status of criticism

 * Critics have two concerns. First, the cross-cultural extrapolation of shamanism, and second, pushing this idea far into the past.

Is this criticism still valid? There's been a lot of evidence substantiating Lewis-Williams within the last 20 years. Viriditas (talk) 08:15, 29 May 2023 (UTC)