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Colin Renfrew (Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) is Emeritus Disney Professor and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University. He is the author and editor of a large number of publications, including Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, with Paul Bahn, which is one of the standard textbooks on the subject.
Iain Morley is Research Fellow of Darwin College and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University. The author of numerous articles in academic journals and books, he is also co-editor, with Colin Renfrew, of Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Plates vii
Picture Acknowledgements xi
Contributors xiii
Foreword Mary Ann Meyers xvii
1 Introduction - Becoming human: changing perspectives on the emergence of human values Colin Renfrew 1
2 The emergence of symbolic thought: the principal steps of hominisation leading towards greater complexity Henry de Lumley 10
Section I African Origins, European Beginnings, and World Prehistory
3 The origins of symbolism, spirituality, and shamans: exploring Middle Stone Age material culture in South Africa Christopher Henshilwood 29
4 Neanderthal symbolic behaviour? Jane M. Renfrew 50
5 Identifying ancient religious thought and iconography: problems of definition, preservation, and interpretation Paul S. C. Tacon 61
6 Situating the creative explosion: universal or local? Colin Renfrew 74
Section II Approaches to 'Art and Religion'
7 The roots of art and religion in ancient material culture Merlin Donald 95
8 The archaeology of early religious practices: a plea for a hypothesis-testing approach Francesco d'Errico 104
9 Out of the mind: material culture and the supernatural Steven Mithen 123
10 Of people and pictures: the nexus of Upper Palaeolithic religion, social discrimination, and art David Lewis-Williams 135
11 Ritual and music: parallels and practice, and the Palaeolithic Iain Morley 159
Section III The European Experience
12 Materiality and meaning-making in the understanding of the Palaeolithic 'arts' Margaret W. Conkey 179
13 Sticking bones into cracks in the Upper Palaeolithic Jean Clottes 195
14 Cognition and climate: why is Upper Palaeolithic cave art almost confined to theFranco-Cantabrian region? Paul Mellars 212
Section IV Reflections on the Origins of Spirituality
15 Interdisciplinary perspectives on human origins and religious awareness J. Wentzel van Huyssteen 235
16 Innovation in material and spiritual culture: exploring conjectured relationships Keith Ward 253
Index 269