Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Garrett Scott Olmsted Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology Home Address: Clynchdale 146 Beartown Rd. Tazewell VA 25651 276/988-6948 Date of Birth: April 21, 1946 Citizenship: USA. Marital Status: Married, 4 children, ages 45, 39, 36, 26. ACADEMIC TRAINING/PREPARATION: Ph.D.: Celtic Languages and Literature, and Archaeology, Harvard University: 1970-76 B.A.: Mathematics, Harvard University: 1964-68 WORK EXPERIENCES: Featured in BBC's Terry Jones: Barbarians: The Primitive Celts (Gaulish Calendar) 2007 Visiting Research Associate, University of Missouri, Columbia 1998-2012 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor, University of Missouri, Columbia. 1998-2012 Professor, Bluefield State College: 2000-2012 Associate Professor (tenured), Bluefield State College: 1992-2000 Assistant Professor, Bluefield State College: 1989-92 Chair of Social Science Department, Bluefield State College 1993-94 Consultant World Book Encyclopedia 1990 Visiting Lecturer, University of Missouri, Columbia: 1989 Editor of the Bulletin of the Japanese Sword Society 1985-86 Cruise Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History: 1984 Visiting Lecturer, University of Missouri, Columbia: 1983 Ramsey Fellow, Smithsonian Institute 1979-80 A. D. White Visiting Professor, Cornell University: 1978-79 Cruise Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History: 1977 Instructor, Harvard University: 1975-76 Teaching Assistant, Harvard University: 1974 Consultant Time-Life Books: The Celts: 1974 Fellow Newnham College, Cambridge University 1974 Tutor, Harvard University: 1971-74 Entered PhD Program in Celtic Studies Harvard University 1970 Studied Scottish Gaelic on Island of Barra (following a course at Harvard) 1969-70  Courses Taught at Cornell University Introduction to Ancient Irish Law Old Irish (Tain bo Fraich, Selections from the Glosses, Selections from the LU Tain) Celtic Art and Mythology Comparative Poetic Systems of Indo-European Languages Courses Taught at Bluefield State College Comparative Religions of Ancient Europe, Iran, and India. From the Upanisads to Zen: Comparative Religions of India, China, and Japan Bronze and Iron-Age Archaeology of Western Europe and the British Isles Early Celtic Art and Mythology Childe Ballads and Highland Gaelic Bardic Poetry: the Origins of Appalachian Song and Folklore. The Scotch Irish, the Gaels, and the Lowland Scots: the Roots of Appalachian Culture. Cultural Anthropology Introduction to Linguistics The Bagadvadh Gita, the Politia of Plato, and the Nichomacian Ethics: the Origins of Morality and Justice. Early Calendar Systems and Aristotle's Astronomy: the Origins of Science. From Pottery to Metallurgy: the Origins of Western and Eastern Technology. The Origins of Western European Legal Systems. Human Evolution. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY: Languages: Archaic Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Middle Welsh, Welsh, Gaulish, Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Old Norse, Old English, English, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Italian,. [Japanese, Babylonian, and Sumerian in Progress]. Areas of Expertise in Comparative Religions and Linguistics: Eurasian Comparative Linguistics with particular Emphasis on Proto-Indo-European Mythology, Ritual, Religion, and Cult of Early Ireland, Gaul, India, Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, Sumeria, Akkadia, and Babylonia. The Gaulish Calendar Early European Calendars Gaulish and Celtiberian Inscriptions Early and Middle Welsh Poetry: The Gododdin and the Gogynbardd. The Mabinogi and the Triadds. Irish Law Tracts: the Bretha Nemed and Related Archaic Tracts. Audacht Morainn. The Ulster Cycle with particular emphasis on the Tain-type tracts The Dindsenchas (Prose and Poetic) Archaic Irish Poetry (particularly those poems related to the Tain bo Cuailnge. The Poetic Edda and Snorris Edda) Beowuth Areas of Expertise in Archaeology : Archaeology of Ancient Europe and the Near East Ancient Art and Iconography of Eurasia. Iron Age Archaeology of France and the British Isles. European Art in the Iron Ages Gaulish and Thracian Coinage Clientship, Mixed-farming-husbandry Systems, and Sociocultural Evolution. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS: Works in Progress: The Common Origin of the Languages, Myths, and Genome of the Semites, Dravidians, and Indo-Europeans: Emigrations of the First Farmers out of Mesopotamian during the Sixth Century BC. (In preparation). The Gaulish Calendar and the Celtic Cycle of Festivals: (Still in preparation and to be published in:) Innsbrucher Beitrage zur Culture Wissenschaft. Clipped Wings: (Completed and to be published in 2019 by:) Purdue University Press. Published Books and Monographs: A Definitive Reconstructed Text of the Gaulish Calendar, JIES Monograph No. 39, 2002. Celtic Art in Transition during the First Century BC, 340 pages including approximately 1500 illustrations, jointly published in 2001 by Archeolingua:12, Budapest, and Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft: 111, Innsbruck. The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans, approximately 600 pages (600,000 words), jointly published in 1994 by Archeolingua:6, Budapest, and Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft: 92, Innsbruck. A Comparative Analysis of the Mutual Interrelationship of Gaulish and Irish Deities and their Development from PIE deities: a Study of the Gods of Gaul and Ireland and their Relationship to the Gods of Greece, Scandinavia, Rome, Avestan Iran, and Vedic India. The Gaulish Calendar, approximately 300 pages including 100 pages of tables, published in 1992 by Habelt. Bonn. A computer-framed reconstruction as well as analysis of the development, structure, and function of the Coligny calendar. The Gundestrup Cauldron: its Archaeological Context, the Style and Iconography of its Portrayed Motifs, and their Narration of a Gaulish Version of Táin bó Cualinge, 400 pages, published in 1979 as a monograph in Collection Latomus, No. 162. Brussels. Covers the relationship of early Celtic iconography and inscriptions to the mythology preserved in Irish manuscripts. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES: 1974 "Silver Panels and a Celtic Tale", in The Celts, Time-Life Books, pp. 77-83. 1976 "The Gundestrup Version of Táin Bó Cuailnge", in Antiquity, L, pp. 95-103. 1977 "Review of Barry Cunliffe's, Excavations at Portchester Castle, II: Saxon (Report of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London), XXXIII. London.", in Speculum. 1978 "The Aided Fraích Episode of Táin Bó Cuailnge", in Études celtiques, XV, pp. 537-547. 1979 "A Contemporary View on Irish Hill-top Enclosures", in Études celtiques, XVI, pp. 171-185. 1981 "The Monocoque Bird", in World War I Airplanes, no. 87, pp. 30-52. 1982 "Mórrígan's Warning to Donn Cuailnge", in Études celtiques, XIX, pp. 165-172. 1986a "Aesthetic Criteria in the Artistic Evaluation of Nihonto", Bulletin of the JSS/US. 1986b "The Evolution of Sword Polishing in Japan", Bulletin of the JSS/US. 1988a "The Irish Correlatives of Vedic Mitra/Varun,˜a", in The Mankind Quarterly, XXVIII, no. 3, pp. 211-269. 1988b "Gaulish and Celtiberian Poetic Inscriptions", in The Mankind Quarterly, XXVIII, no. 4, pp. 339-387. 1988c "Luccreth's Poem Conailla Medb Michuru and the Origins of the Táin", in The Mankind Quarterly, XXIX, pp. 372. 1988d "The Use of Ordinal Numerals on the Gaulish Coligny Calendar", in The Journal of Indo-European Studies, XVI, pp. 267-340. 1989 "The Meter of the Gaulish Inscription From Larzac", in The Journal of Indo-European Studies, XVII, nos. 12, pp. 155-163. 1991 "Gaulish, Celtiberian, and Indo-European Verse", in The Journal of Indo-European Studies", XIX, nos. 3-4, pp. 259-307. 1992b "The Earliest Narrative Versions of the Táin: Seventh-Century Poetic References to Táin bó Cúailnge", in Emania, X, 1992, pp. 5-17. 1992c "Conailla Medb Michuru and the Origins of the Táin", in Études celtiques, XXIX, pp. 333-342. 1993 "The Portrayal of an Elephant Biga on the Gundestrup Cauldron", in Horizons and Styles: Studies in Early Celtic Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor Homer L. Thomas, in Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, CI, pp. 135-154. 1994 "Date and Origin of Proto-Indo-European Culture", in Actes du XIIe Congres International des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, pp. 86-92, Bratislava. 1999 “Archaeology, Social Evolution, and the Spread of Indo-European Languages and Cultures”, in Indo-European Miscellanea, edited by Edgar Polome,', Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series.: Monograph 33 (1999). 2001 “Toward a Reconstructed Text of the Coligny Calendar’, in Proceedings of the UISPP Congress, Liege, 2001. 2004 “Harvesting the Land, Reaching the Sky”, in Western New York Heritage, Cheektowaga, NY, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 16-23. 2010 “The Gaulish Calendar: the Implications for Scottish and Irish Festival Dates”, in Bonner Jahrbuch, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 193-204 (Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Celtic Studies). 2012 " SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Portrayals of Elephants, Griffins, and Dolphins in Western Celtic Metalwork and Coinage During the First Century BC", in Elizabeth Jerem Festschrift. 2018 “The Táin: the Myth of the Ancient Irish Easter”, in forthcoming Proceedings of the Táin Conference: Dublin 2016. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Ramsey Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution: 1979-80 A. D. White Fellowship, Cornell University: 1978-79 McCurdy Grant, Harvard University: 1973-74 Whiting Scholarship, Harvard University: 1965-67 Lowenstein Scholarship, Harvard University: 1964-65 PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP: Member of the International Union of Pre-Historic and Proto-Historic Sciences. Member of the American Anthropological Association Member of the Celtic Studies Association of North America CONFERENCES Presented papers at Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002. Presented papers at International Celtic Congress 1979, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2007 (Galway, Paris, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Bonn). Presented papers at UISPP Congress 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 (Mainz, Bratislava, Forli, Liege). 2 Olmsted