The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective
PART I: ELEMENTS AND EXPRESSION
	1 Monumentality
	2 Landscape
	3 Water
	4 Fire
	5 Myth and Folklore
	6 Cosmogony
	7 Death
	8 Taboo
	9 The Many Dimensions of Ritual
	10 Personhood and the Body
	11 Sacrifice
	12 Ideology
	13 Feasting and Fasting
	14 Gender and Religion in Archaeology
	15 Archaeologies of the Senses
	16 Syncretism and Religious Fusion
	17 Technology
	18 Rites of Passage
	19 The Archaeology of Contemporary Confiict
	20 Rock Art, Religion, and Ritual
PART II: PREHISTORIC EUROPEAN RITUAL AND RELIGION
	21 Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
	22 Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic
	23 The Mesolithic
	24 Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic
	25 Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age
	26 The Iron Age
PART III: RELIGION AND RITUAL IN WORLD PREHISTORY
	27 Sub-Saharan Africa
	28 The Prehistory of Religion in China
	29 The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago
	30 Ritual and Religion in South-east Asia
	31 Historicizing Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea
	32 Pacific and New Zealand
	33 Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean
	34 Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya
	35 Aztecs
	36 Inca
	37 Moche Religion
	38 North America: Pueblos
	39 North America: Eastern Woodlands
	40 The Religious System of the Northwest Coast of North America
	41 Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America
PART IV: RELIGION AND CULT OF THE OLD WORLD
	42 Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean
	43 Ancient Greece
	44 Etruscan Ritual and Religion
	45 Egypt
	46 Rome: Imperial and Local Religions
	47 Maltese Prehistoric Religion
	48 Mesopotamia
	49 Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant
	50 Iran
	51 Anatolia
	52 Old Norse and Germanic Religion
	53 Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World
	54 The Archaeology of Baltic Religions
PART V: ARCHAEOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS
	55 The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism
	56 The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD
	57 Archaeology of Hinduism
	58 Buddhism
	59 Christianity
	60 Islam
PART VI: ARCHAEOLOGY OF INDIGENOUS AND NEW RELIGIONS
	61 Shamanism
	62 Animism and Totemism
	63 Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and ‘Neo-Shamanic’ Interactions with Archaeology
	64 Druidism and Neo-Paganism
	65 Ancestor Cults
	66 Divine Kings
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