TY - BOOK AU - Moyes,Holley ED - University Press of Colorado TI - Sacred darkness: a global perspective on the ritual use of caves SN - 1607323605 AV - BL580 .S2293 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Boulder PB - University Press Of Colorado KW - Sacred space KW - Caves KW - Religious aspects KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Ritual KW - Anthropology of religion N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ritual cave use in European Paleolithic caves; Jean Clottes; -- Constructed caves : transformations of the underworld in prehistoric southeast Italy; Robin Skeates; -- Caves of the living, caves of the dead : experiences above and below ground in prehistoric Malta; Simon K.F. Stoddart and Caroline A.T. Malone; -- Landscapes of ritual, identity, and memory : reconsidering Neolithic and Bronze Age cave use in Crete, Greece; Peter Tomkins; -- Caves and the funerary landscape of prehistoric Britain; Andrew T. Chamberlain; -- The subterranean landscape of the southern Levant during the Chalcolithic period; Yorke M. Rowan and David Ilan; -- The chamber of secrets : grottoes, caves, and the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion; Stuart Tyson Smith; -- Caves as sacred spaces on the Tibetan Plateau; Mark Aldenderfer; -- Differential Australian cave and rockshelter use during the Pleistocene and Holocene; Paul S.C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Matthew Kelleher, and Dave Pross; -- Caves as sacred space in Mesoamerica; Holley Moyes and James E. Brady; -- Footsteps in the dark zone : ritual cave use in Southwest prehistory; Scott Nicolay; -- Forty years' pursuit of human prehistory in the world underground; Patty Jo Watson; -- A new overview of prehistoric cave art in the Southeast; Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and Joseph Douglas; -- Reevaluating cave records : the case for ritual caves in the eastern United States; Cheryl Claassen; -- Ceremonial use of caves and rockshelters in Ohio; Olaf H. Prufer and Keith M. Prufer; -- The ritual use of caves and rockshelters in Ozark prehistory; George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, and Jami J. Lockhart; -- The prehistoric funerary archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo); Graeme Barker and Lindsay Lloyd-Smith; -- Recognizing ritual in the dark : Nakovana Cave and the end of the Adriatic Iron Age; Timothy Kaiser and Stašo Forenbaher; -- Sacred spaces, sacred species : zooarchaeological perspectives on ritual uses of caves; Joanna E.P. Appleby and Preston T. Miracle; -- Ritual cave use in the Bahamas; Robert S. Carr, William C. Schaffer, Jeff B. Ransom, and Michael P. Pateman; -- Caves in Ireland : archaeology, myth, and folklore; Patrick McCafferty; -- Caves in black and white : the case of Zimbabwe; Terence Ranger; -- Where the wild things are : an exploration of sacrality, danger, and violence in confined spaces; Sandra Pannell and Sue O'Connor; -- Ritual uses of caves in West Malaysia; Joseph J. Hobbs; -- A quantitative literature survey regarding the uses and perceptions of caves among nine indigenous Andean societies; Nathan Craig; -- Caves and related sites in the Great Plains of North America; Donald J. Blakeslee; -- Civilizing the cave man : diachronic and cross-cultural perspectives on cave ritual; Andrea Stone; -- Caves and spatial constraint : the prehistoric implications; Ezra B.W. Zubrow; -- Why dark zones are sacred : turning to behavioral and cognitive science for answers; Daniel R. Montello and Holley Moyes ER -