... The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press. James, E.O. n.d. The Beginnings ofReligion. London: Hutchinson. James, E.O. 1957. Prehistoric Religion: A Study in Prehistoric Archaeology ...
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD
... Ziyarat Ashura might also be said or read afterwards. Generally, the visitor will sit facing the Qibla with his or her hand on the grave. Plastic or wooden stools are frequently left next to graves. In some instances, a copy of the ...
... African Republic . The Continent's Hidden Heart . Boulder : Westview Press ... African Cosmology and Experience . Uppsala : Almqvist and Wiksell , pp . 237 ... Stonehenge for the Ancestors : The Stones Pass on the Message , Antiquity 72 ...
... Tira ( Stevenson 1963 : 10 , 1984 : 41 ) . Yet the Nuba were also the ... peo- ples of the wetter lands below them ' . Besides the Nuba , other Fartit ... peo- ple ' or ' rock people ' were also used to describe these other groups as ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
... male xi and female wu was not always made, it seems clear that the original designation applied to women. Thus it cannot be known, but can be inferred, that the makers and users of the most ancient oracle bones, those who told the ...
... atlatl (spear thrower) dredged from a waterlogged site near the mouth of the Skagit River and C-14 dated to 1700±100 ... thunderbird prototype from a layer dating about 2,000 years ago. At other village sites several small examples of figural ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
... neo-pagan spirituality. In a similar vein, a number of archaeologists have begun to see the reuse of prehistoric monuments by neo-pagan groups as another stage in the life cycle of these structures, perhaps even leaving ... DRUIDISM AND NEO.
... mobility impaired, for example, using the social model's concept of environmental barriers as disabling. In a rural society with no wheelchairs or mobility aids, unimproved roads, and unmodified topography, is a person who may be ...
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