Archaeology of Spiritualities

Kathryn Rountree is an Associate Professor at the Social Anthropology Programme, School of People, Environment, and Planning, at Massey University, in Auckland, New Zealand. Christine Morris is the Andrew A. David Senior Lecturer in Greek Archaeology and History in the Department of Classics, in the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin. Alan A. D. Peatfield is a College Lecturer at the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.

• Section I: Life, Death and Ancestors.- Chapter 1. The Spirituality of Prehistoric Societies: A View from the Irish Megaliths.- Chapter 2. Fragmentary Ancestors? Medicine, Bodies and Personhood in a Koma Mound, Northern Ghana.- Chapter 3. Negotiating Archaeology/Spirituality: Pagan Engagements with the Prehistoric Past in Britain.- Section II: Relational Ontologies and Engagements with Landscape.- Chapter 4. Spirituality and the Material World in.- Chapter 5. Breath and Being: Contextualizing Object Persons at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico.- Chapter 6. In Search of Cosmic Power: Contextualizing Spiritual Journeys between Cahokia and the St. Francois Mountains.- Section III: Playing the Field: Archaeology, Ethnography and Oral Traditions.- Chapter 7. Accessing Past Cosmologies through Material Culture and the Landscape in the Philippines.- Chapter 8. From Holy Hiis to Sacred Stone: The Diverse and Dynamic Meanings of Estonian Holy Sites.- Chapter 9. Magical Signs in Prehistory: Near Eastern Celestial Symbols in the Ancient Carpathian Basin.- Section IV: Embodied Spiritualities: The Case of the Minoans.- Chapter 10. ‘Nature’, the Minoans and Embodied Spiritualities. Chapter 11. Dynamic Spirituality on Minoan Peak Sanctuaries. Chapter 12. Dusk at the Palace: Exploring Minoan Spiritualities.