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Sacred darkness : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves
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- ISBN: 9781607323600 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9781607321774 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1607321777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781607321781 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1607321785 (ebook)
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xvii, 410 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. - Edition: First papberback edition.
- Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2014, c2012.
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| General Note: | Some chapters presented at a symposium entitled "Journeys into the Darkness : a Cross-Cultural Perspective of Caves as Sacred Spaces," held during the 69th annual meeting, 2004, of the Society for American Archaeology, in Montréal. Cf. pref. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: pt. I Old World Ritual Cave Traditions -- 1. Ritual Cave Use in European Paleolithic Caves / Jean Clottes -- 2. Constructed Caves: Transformations of the Underworld in Prehistoric Southeast Italy / Robin Skeates -- 3. Caves of the Living, Caves of the Dead: Experiences Above and Below Ground in Prehistoric Malta / Caroline A.T. Malone -- 4. Landscapes of Ritual, Identity, and Memory: Reconsidering Neolithic and Bronze Age Cave Use in Crete, Greece / Peter Tomkins -- 5. Caves and the Funerary Landscape of Prehistoric Britain / Andrew T. Chamberlain -- 6. Subterranean Landscape of the Southern Levant during the Chalcolithic Period / David Ilan -- 7. Chamber of Secrets: Grottoes, Caves, and the Underworld in Ancient Egyptian Religion / Stuart Tyson Smith -- 8. Caves as Sacred Spaces on the Tibetan Plateau / Mark Aldenderfer -- 9. Differential Australian Cave and Rockshelter Use during the Pleistocene and Holocene / Dave Pross -- pt. II New World Ritual Cave Traditions -- 10. Caves as Sacred Space in Mesoamerica / James E. Brady -- 11. Footsteps in the Dark Zone: Ritual Cave Use in Southwest Prehistory / Scott Nicolay -- 12. Forty Years' Pursuit of Human Prehistory in the World Underground / Patty Jo Watson -- 13. New Overview of Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeast / Joseph Douglas -- 14. Reevaluating Cave Records: The Case for Ritual Caves in the Eastern United States / Cheryl Claassen -- 15. Ceremonial Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ohio / Keith M. Prufer -- 16. Ritual Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ozark Prehistory / Jami J. Lockhart -- pt. III Case Studies in Ritual Cave Use -- 17. Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) / Lindsay Lloyd-Smith -- 18. Recognizing Ritual in the Dark: Nakovana Cave and the End of the Adriatic Iron Age / Staso Forenbaher -- 19. Sacred Spaces, Sacred Species: Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Ritual Uses of Caves / Preston T. Miracle -- 20. Ritual Cave Use in the Bahamas / Michael P. Pateman -- pt. IV Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Studies -- 21. Caves in Ireland: Archaeology, Myth, and Folklore / Patrick McCafferty -- 22. Caves in Black and White: The Case of Zimbabwe / Terence Ranger -- 23. Where the Wild Things Are: An Exploration of Sacrality, Danger, and Violence in Confined Spaces / Sue O'Connor -- 24. Ritual Uses of Caves in West Malaysia / Joseph J. Hobbs -- 25. Quantitative Literature Survey Regarding the Uses and Perceptions of Caves among Nine Indigenous Andean Societies / Nathan Craig -- 26. Caves and Related Sites in the Great Plains of North America / Donald J. Blakeslee -- pt. V New Approaches -- 27. Civilizing the Cave Man: Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Cave Ritual / Andrea Stone -- 28. Caves and Spatial Constraint: The Prehistoric Implications / Ezra B.W. Zubrow -- 29. Why Dark Zones Are Sacred: Turning to Behavioral and Cognitive Science for Answers / Holley Moyes. |
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| Subject: | Sacred space Caves -- Religious aspects Caves -- Cross-cultural studies Ritual Anthropology of religion |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | BL 580 S2293 2014 (Text) | 26040003265861 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
