Archaeological imaginations of religion
By: edited by Thomas Meier and Petra Tillessen
Series: Archaeolingua. Series minor -- 31; Archaeolingua -- 31
Publisher: Archaeolingua
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9789639911246
Subjects: Archaeology and religion; Congresses; Prehistoric Religion
Notes: Selected papers from the 14th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Valletta, Malta, September 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological imaginations of religion : an introduction from an Anglo-German perspective  -- Thomas Meier with Petra Tillessen; title: Sacred worlds or sacred cows? Can we paramaterize past rituals?  -- John Bintliff; title: Imagining animals in prehistoric religions  -- Erica Hill; title: Animism, ancestors and adjusted styles of communication : hidden art in Irish passage tombs  -- Robert J. Wallis; title: Style over content  -- Miranda Aldhouse-Green; title: Dialogues with the dead. Imagining mesolithic mortuary rituals  -- Liv Nilsson Stutz; title: Conceptualization of space through folklore. On the mythical and ritual significance of community limits  -- Katja Hrobat Virloget; title: The concept of liminality and Sámi sacred landscapes -- Tiina Äikäs.