Kathryn Rountree, Christine Morris, Alan A. D. Peatfield, editors
New York :
Springer,
c2012
1 online resource (xvi, 277 p.) :
ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.)
One world archaeology
Includes bibliographical references and index
The spirituality of prehistoric societies : a view from the Irish megaliths / Muiris O'Sullivan -- Fragmentary ancestors? : medicine, bodies, and personhood in a Koma mound, northern Ghana / Timothy Insoll, Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng, and Samuel N. Nkumbaan -- Negotiating archaeology/spirituality : pagan engagements with the prehistoric past in Britain / Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis -- Spirituality and the material world in post-medieval Europe / Vesa-Pekka Herva -- Breath and being : contextualizing object persons at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico / Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool -- In search of cosmic power : contextualizing spiritual journeys between Cahokia and the St. Francois Mountains / John E. Kelly and James A. Brown -- Accessing past cosmologies through material culture and the landscape in the Philippines / Victor Paz -- From holy hiis to sacred stone : diverse and dynamic meanings of Estonian holy sites / Tõnno Jonuks -- Magical signs in prehistory : Near Eastern celestial symbols in the ancient Carpathian Basin / Emília Pásztor -- "Nature", the Minoans and embodied spiritualities / Lucy Goodison -- Dynamic spirituality on Minoan peak sanctuaries / Alan A.D. Peatfield and Christine Morris -- Dusk at the palace : exploring Minoan spiritualities / Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw