Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods A Natural History of Religion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wunn, Ina (Author), Grojnowski, Davina (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:VII, 290 p. 97 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52757-3
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Of Men and Apes
  • The Crux of a Darwinian Approach to Evolution
  • The Question of When? (Lower Palaeolithic, c. 2.6 mybp – 300,000 ybp)
  • My Cave is my Castle – Middle Palaeolithic, Territoriality, and Death
  • Existential Fears – and an Excursus in Art History
  • A Forest of Symbols – the Art of the European Upper Palaeolithic (40,000-12,000ybp)
  • The Change of Imagery (the Central European Mesolithic, approx. 9,600-5,800 ybp)
  • Aedificio Ergo Sum (I build, thus I am). Early Settlers in the Fertile Crescent
  • The village, the ritual, and death
  • Ex Oriente Lux: Neolithic ideology becomes popular
  • Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries – the male Principle and collective Cult
  • The exchange of gifts and the Underworld: Malta
  • The Double Axe and the Bull – a Pantheon Develops.