Table of Contents

Timothy Insoll: Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective
I. Elements and Expression
1: Chris Scarre: Monumentality
2: Randi Haaland & Gunnar Haaland: Landscape
3: Terje Oestigard: Water
4: Anders Kaliff: Fire
5: Amy Gazin-Schwartz: Myth and Folklore
6: Terje Oestigard: Cosmogony
7: Tim Taylor: Death
8: Nicky Milner: Taboo
9: Marc Verhoeven: The Many Dimensions of Ritual
10: Chris Fowler: Personhood and the Body
11: Timothy Insoll: Sacrifice
12: Randall McGuire & Reinhard Bernbeck: Ideology
13: Michael Dietler: Feasting and Fasting
14: Sarah Milledge Nelson: Gender and Religion in Archaeology
15: Yannis Hamilakis: Archaeologies of the Senses
16: Timothy Clack: Syncretism and Religious Fusion
17: Olivier P. Gosselain: Technology
18: Paul Garwood: Rites of Passage
19: Zoe Crossland: The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict
20: David S. Whitley: Rock Art, Religion and Ritual
II. Prehistoric European Ritual and Religion
21: Paul Pettitt: Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
22: Paul Bahn: Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic
23: Chantal Conneller: The Mesolithic
24: Julian Thomas: Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic
25: Joanna Bruck: Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age
26: Jody Joy: The Iron Age
III. Religion and Ritual in World Prehistory
27: Timothy Insoll: Sub-Saharan Africa
28: Lukas Nickel: The Prehistory of Religion in China
29: Simon Kaner: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago
30: Charles Higham: Ritual and Religion in Southeast Asia
31: Bruno David: Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea
32: Paul Rainbird: Pacific and New Zealand
33: Peter Roe: Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean
34: Rosemary Joyce: Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya
35: Michael E. Smith: Aztecs
36: Kevin Lane: Inca
37: Jeffrey Quilter: Moche Religion
38: Kelley Hays-Gilpin: North America: Pueblos
39: James Vernon Knight: North America: Eastern Woodlands
40: Roy L. Carlson: The North American Northwest Coast Religious System: Coastal Northwest
41: Brian Robinson: Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America
IV. Religion and Cult of the Old World
42: Colin Renfrew: Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean
43: Julia Kindt: Ancient Greece
44: Tom Rasmussen: Etruscan Ritual and Religion
45: Anna Stevens: Egypt
46: Richard Hingley: Rome: Imperial and Local Religions
47: Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart: Maltese Prehistoric Religion
48: Michael J. Seymour: Mesopotamia
49: Marc Verhoeven: Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant
50: Daniel Potts: Iran
51: Karina Croucher: Anatolia
52: Anders Andren: Old Norse and Germanic Religion
53: Martin Welch: Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World
54: Tonno Jonuks: The Archaeology of Baltic Religions
V. Archaeology of World Religions
55: Aaron A. Burke: The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism
56: James F. Strange: The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD
57: Namita Sugandhi & Kathleen Morrison: Archaeology of Hinduism
58: Robin Coningham: Buddhism
59: Sam Turner: Christianity
60: Andrew Petersen: Islam
VI. Archaeology of Indigenous and New Religions
61: Neil Price: Shamanism
62: Timothy Insoll: Animism and Totemism
63: Jenny Blain: Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology
64: Aleks Pluskowski: Druidism and Neo-Paganism
65: Timothy Insoll: Ancestor Cults
66: Pierre de Maret: Divine Kings

About the Author

Timothy Insoll is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

This [Handbook] gives many riches, and is both extremely thought provoking and timely. It will be used and enjoyed by readers at many different levels.
*Alasdair Whittle, European Journal of Archaeology*

The volume is exceptionally well organized.
*Stephen D. Glazier, Religion*