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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Contributors 8 Preface 10 Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating archaeological approaches to the study of religious practices and beliefs 12 Part I: Sacred Nature 22 Chapter 2: Animal burials and their cults in Margiana 24 Chapter 3: Identifying sacrifice in Bronze Age Near Eastern iconography 35 Chapter 4: Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev 49 Chapter 5: Thoughts on material expressions of cultic practice. Standing stone monuments of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant 59 Chapter 6: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: towards a definition of sacred space and its evolution 71 Part II: Housing the God 84 Chapter 7: A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe 86 Chapter 8: Where to worship? Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah 101 Chapter 9: Communal places of worship: ritual activities and ritualised ideology during the Early Bronze Age Jezirah 113 Chapter 10: Open spaces around the temples and their ritual use: archaeological evidence from the Bronze and Iron Age Levant 129 Chapter 11: Ritual circumambulations in the Syro-Mesopotamia
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- Author
- Laneri, Nicola;
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books, Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction