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Sacred darkness : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves / edited by Holley Moyes - First paperback edition - xvii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Ritual cave use in European Paleolithic caves / -- Constructed caves : transformations of the underworld in prehistoric southeast Italy / -- Caves of the living, caves of the dead : experiences above and below ground in prehistoric Malta / -- Landscapes of ritual, identity, and memory : reconsidering Neolithic and Bronze Age cave use in Crete, Greece / -- Caves and the funerary landscape of prehistoric Britain / -- The subterranean landscape of the southern Levant during the Chalcolithic period / -- The chamber of secrets : grottoes, caves, and the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion / -- Caves as sacred spaces on the Tibetan Plateau / -- Differential Australian cave and rockshelter use during the Pleistocene and Holocene / -- Caves as sacred space in Mesoamerica / -- Footsteps in the dark zone : ritual cave use in Southwest prehistory / -- Forty years' pursuit of human prehistory in the world underground / -- A new overview of prehistoric cave art in the Southeast / -- Reevaluating cave records : the case for ritual caves in the eastern United States / -- Ceremonial use of caves and rockshelters in Ohio / -- The ritual use of caves and rockshelters in Ozark prehistory / -- The prehistoric funerary archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) / -- Recognizing ritual in the dark : Nakovana Cave and the end of the Adriatic Iron Age / -- Sacred spaces, sacred species : zooarchaeological perspectives on ritual uses of caves / -- Ritual cave use in the Bahamas / -- Caves in Ireland : archaeology, myth, and folklore / -- Caves in black and white : the case of Zimbabwe / -- Where the wild things are : an exploration of sacrality, danger, and violence in confined spaces / -- Ritual uses of caves in West Malaysia / -- A quantitative literature survey regarding the uses and perceptions of caves among nine indigenous Andean societies / -- Caves and related sites in the Great Plains of North America / -- Civilizing the cave man : diachronic and cross-cultural perspectives on cave ritual / -- Caves and spatial constraint : the prehistoric implications / -- Why dark zones are sacred : turning to behavioral and cognitive science for answers / Jean Clottes Robin Skeates Simon K.F. Stoddart and Caroline A.T. Malone Peter Tomkins Andrew T. Chamberlain Yorke M. Rowan and David Ilan Stuart Tyson Smith Mark Aldenderfer Paul S.C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Matthew Kelleher, and Dave Pross Holley Moyes and James E. Brady Scott Nicolay Patty Jo Watson Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and Joseph Douglas Cheryl Claassen Olaf H. Prufer and Keith M. Prufer George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, and Jami J. Lockhart Graeme Barker and Lindsay Lloyd-Smith Timothy Kaiser and Stašo Forenbaher Joanna E.P. Appleby and Preston T. Miracle Robert S. Carr, William C. Schaffer, Jeff B. Ransom, and Michael P. Pateman Patrick McCafferty Terence Ranger Sandra Pannell and Sue O'Connor Joseph J. Hobbs Nathan Craig Donald J. Blakeslee Andrea Stone Ezra B.W. Zubrow Daniel R. Montello and Holley Moyes

ISBN: 1607323605 9781607323600

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sacred space
Caves--Religious aspects
Caves--Cross-cultural studies
Ritual
Anthropology of religion

LC Class. No.: BL580 / .S2293 2014