Author Description

Religion beyond icon, burial and monument: an introduction / David S. Whitley and Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- Religion and archaeology: an analytical, materialist account / J. David Lewis-Williams -- Cross-cultural and biogenetic perspectives on the origins of shamanism / Michael Winkelman -- Supernatural metaphors and belief in the past: defining an archaeology of religion / David S. Whitley -- Centering historical-archaeological discourse: the prehistory of central Asian/south Siberian shamanism / Andrzej Rozwadowski -- Text versus image: the implications of physical evidence for Buddhist history / Robert DeCaroli -- Delegitimizing religion: the archaeology of religion as... archaeology / Lars Fogelin -- Bodylore and the archaeology of embedded religion: dramatic license in the funerals of the Vikings / Neil S. Price -- Historical-processual archaeology and culture making: unpacking the southern cult and Mississippian religion / Thomas E. Emerson and Timothy R. Pauketat -- Discontinuity between political power and religious status: mountains, pools, and dry ones among Venda-speaking chiefdoms of southern Africa / Johannes H.N. Loubser -- Shrines of the land and places of power: religion and the transition to farming in western Europe / Chris Scarre -- Northern landscapes, northern mind: on the trail of an 'Archaeology of hunter-gatherer belief' / Peter Jordan -- Archaeology and women's ritual business / Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- Traditional knowledge, ritual behavior, and contemporary interpretations of the archaeological record--an Ojibwa perspective / Maria Nieves Zedeño