This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion. It explains
the functions and purpose of varied rituals across the world by arguing they are mechanisms …

Zusammenfassung Der Begriff Schamanismus wurde und wird in der Archäologie häufig zur
Beschreibung früher Glaubenssysteme verwendet, gelegentlich ohne Erörterung des …

ABSTRACT Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern Turkey, features several
temple-like enclosures adorned with many intricately carved symbols. It is located centrally …

Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site that has challenged much prior thought on human
history with respect to our Neolithic revolution from animistic, egalitarian, hunter-gatherers to …

This edited volume features psychologists exploring archaeological data concerning specific
themes such as: the use of tools, our child-rearing practices, our expressions of gender and …

How and why does the increasing number of religiously unaffiliated and nonbelieving
individuals look for beliefs, meaning, and identities outside religious frameworks? Why are …

This pioneering study investigates the transformative shift in the nature of education during
the Neolithic revolution, utilising Göbekli Tepe's role as an archaic open school that attested …

Forager societies have had a profound influence on the natural world as modernity has
come to know it, engineering environments over the course of millennia through consistent …

How can we account for humans' ubiquitous and exceptional propensity to believe in gods?
Many in the cognitive sciences of religion posit that there is dedicated machinery or a suite …

This book corrals global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia,
Central America, the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the …