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An Archaeology of the Cosmos
Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415521284 |
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An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns changes in those beliefs. What causes beliefs to change? Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, especially case material from the Great Plains and the pre-Columbian American Indian city of Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat explores the logical consequences of these two fundamental questions. Religious beliefs are not more resilient than other aspects of culture and society, and people are not the only causes of historical change. An Archaeology of the Cosmos examines the intimate association of agency and religion by studying how relationships between people, places, and things were bundled together and positioned in ways that constituted the fields of human experience. This rethinking theories of agency and religion provides readers with challenging and thought provoking conclusions that will lead them to reassess the way they approach the past.
An Archaeology of the Cosmos
Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136196386 |
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An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns changes in those beliefs. What causes beliefs to change? Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, especially case material from the Great Plains and the pre-Columbian American Indian city of Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat explores the logical consequences of these two fundamental questions. Religious beliefs are not more resilient than other aspects of culture and society, and people are not the only causes of historical change. An Archaeology of the Cosmos examines the intimate association of agency and religion by studying how relationships between people, places, and things were bundled together and positioned in ways that constituted the fields of human experience. This rethinking theories of agency and religion provides readers with challenging and thought provoking conclusions that will lead them to reassess the way they approach the past.
The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience
Author | : Efrosyni Boutsikas |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108488174 |
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Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
A Cosmos in Stone
Author | : David J. Lewis-Williams |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780759116719 |
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J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped decode the complex paintings, and traces the development of neuropsychological models for understanding the relationship between belief systems and rock art. The author then applies his theories to the famous rock paintings of prehistoric Western Europe in an attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of rock art. For students of rock art, archaeology, ethnography, comparative religion, and art history, Lewis-Williams' book will be a provocative read and an important reference.
Early Man and the Cosmos
Author | : Evan Hadingham |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0806119195 |
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An examination of ancient astronomy looks at the myths and beliefs about the heavens that influenced everyday life in these primitive cultures
Cosmic Archeology
Author | : Ian Beardsley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : 0595615287 |
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
Author | : Alice Gorman |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262539654 |
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A pioneering space archaeologist explores artifacts left behind in space and on Earth, from moon dust to Elon Musk's red sports car. Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist: she examines the artifacts of human encounters with space. These objects, left behind on Earth and in space, can be massive (dead satellites in eternal orbit) or tiny (discarded zip ties around a defunct space antenna). They can be bold (an American flag on the moon) or hopeful (messages from Earth sent into deep space). They raise interesting questions: Why did Elon Musk feel compelled to send a red Tesla into space? What accounts for the multiple rocket-themed playgrounds constructed after the Russians launched Sputnik? Gorman—affectionately known as “Dr Space Junk” —takes readers on a journey through the solar system and beyond, deploying space artifacts, historical explorations, and even the occasional cocktail recipe in search of the ways that we make space meaningful. Engaging and erudite, Gorman recounts her background as a (nonspace) archaeologist and how she became interested in space artifacts. She shows us her own piece of space junk: a fragment of the fuel tank insulation from Skylab, the NASA spacecraft that crash-landed in Western Australia in 1979. She explains that the conventional view of the space race as “the triumph of the white, male American astronaut” seems inadequate; what really interests her, she says, is how everyday people engage with space. To an archaeologist, objects from the past are significant because they remind us of what we might want to hold on to in the future.
Maya Cosmos
Author | : David Freidel |
Publsiher | : William Morrow Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1995-02-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0688140696 |
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A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.