by
Brian Fagan
ISBN-10: 0738201413
ISBN-13: 978-0738201412
CONTENTS:
Lead up
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE Intangible
Dark CAVES, Conceal VISIONS
SAN ARTISTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Wealth AND Death
Suspend AND THE Population
AVEBURY: LANDSCAPES OF THE Population
STONEHENGE AND THE Incident OF Regularity
TWO LIVINGS: Farming AND REUGION
THE MOUNDBUILDERS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
THE BULL Beneath THE Home
A Tribute AT PHYLAKOPI
Fantastic KINGS Inoperative THE NILE
XUNANTUNICH: "THE MAIDEN OF THE Sway"
THE Construction OF THE FIFTH SUN
EPILOGUE
Outlet TO Increase Presentation
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Donna Seaman wrote...
In Regularity Detectives (1994), archaeologist Fagan recounted the revolutionary effect of carbon-dating techniques on the practice of archaeology. Award he discusses the go against of establishing a worthy come near for creating an "archaeology of the good sense." Fagan studies the join and eroded remains of sacred sites to ask not emphatically the nature of the rituals performed there but each the cosmologies that stirred them, believing that archaeologists can, and necessity, use the unrefined to account for the spiritual. In okay moralistic yet amusingly unreliable accounts of his sojourns at train sacred sites, including the art-laced Cro-Magnon caves of France, the San paintings of southern Africa, the megaliths and stone circles of Europe, and the earthworks of North America, Fagan explains how the chemistry of pigments or crop remains, the molecular structure of obsidian, or the dating of tree rings can be hand-me-down to make ancient iconography and shamanistic practices come lively. In conclusion, his chronicling of the development of our interpretations of the importance of ancient sacred sites demonstrates how integral a layer tackle has played in all religion and science.