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vii List of Figures   |   ix List of Tables   |   xiii Preface   |   xv Note on Radiocarbon Dating   |   xvii Introduction   |   1 Holley Moyes Part I: Old World Ritual Cave Traditions 1. Ritual Cave Use in European Paleolithic Caves   |   15 Jean Clottes 2. Constructed Caves: Transformations of the Underworld in Prehistoric Southeast Italy   |   27 Robin Skeates 3. Caves of the Living, Caves of the Dead: Experiences Above and Below Ground in Prehistoric Malta   |   45 Simon K.F. Stoddart and Caroline A.T. Malone 4. Landscapes of Ritual, Identity, and Memory: Reconsidering Neolithic and Bronze Age Cave Use in Crete, Greece   |   59 Peter Tomkins 5. Caves and the Funerary Landscape of Prehistoric Britain   |   81 Andrew T. Chamberlain Contents 6. The Subterranean Landscape of the Southern Levant during the Chalcolithic Period   |   87 Yorke M. Rowan and David Ilan 7. The Chamber of Secrets: Grottoes, Caves, and the Underworld in Ancient Egyptian Religion   |   109 Stuart Tyson Smith 8. Caves as Sacred Spaces on the Tibetan Plateau   |   125 Mark Aldenderfer 9. Differential Australian Cave and Rockshelter Use during the Pleistocene and Holocene   |   135 Paul S.C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Matthew Kelleher, and Dave Pross Contents viii Part II: New World Ritual Cave Traditions 10. Caves as Sacred Space in Mesoamerica   |   151 Holley Moyes and James E. Brady 11. Footsteps in the Dark Zone: Ritual Cave Use in Southwest Prehistory   |   171 Scott Nicolay 12. Forty Years’ Pursuit of Human Prehistory in the World Underground   |   185 Patty Jo Watson 13. A New Overview of Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeast   |   195 Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and Joseph Douglas 14. Reevaluating Cave Records: The Case for Ritual Caves in the Eastern United States   |   211 Cheryl Claassen 15. Ceremonial Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ohio   |   225 Olaf H. Prufer and Keith M. Prufer 16. The Ritual Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ozark Prehistory   |   237 George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, and Jami J. Lockhart Part III: Case Studies in Ritual Cave Use 17. The Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo)   |   249 Graeme Barker and Lindsay Lloyd-Smith 18. Recognizing Ritual in the Dark: Nakovana Cave and the End of the Adriatic Iron Age   |   263 Timothy Kaiser and Stašo Forenbaher 19. Sacred Spaces, Sacred Species: Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Ritual Uses of Caves   |   275 Joanna E.P. Appleby and Preston T. Miracle 20. Ritual Cave Use in the Bahamas   |   285 Robert S. Carr, William C. Schaffer, Jeff B. Ransom, and Michael P. Pateman Part IV: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Studies 21. Caves in Ireland: Archaeology, Myth, and Folklore   |   297 Patrick McCafferty 22. Caves in Black and White: The Case of Zimbabwe   |   309 Terence Ranger 23. Where the Wild Things Are: An Exploration of Sacrality, Danger, and Violence in Confined Spaces   |   317 Sandra Pannell and Sue O’Connor 24. Ritual Uses of Caves in West Malaysia   |   331 Joseph J. Hobbs 25. A Quantitative Literature Survey Regarding the Uses and Perceptions of Caves among Nine Indigenous Andean Societies   |   343 Nathan Craig 26. Caves and Related Sites in the Great Plains of North America   |   353 Donald J. Blakeslee Part V: New Approaches 27. Civilizing the Cave Man: Diachronic and CrossCultural Perspectives on Cave Ritual   |   365 Andrea Stone 28. Caves and Spatial Constraint: The Prehistoric Implications   |   371 Ezra B.W. Zubrow 29. Why Dark Zones Are Sacred: Turning to Behavioral and Cognitive Science for Answers   |   385 Daniel R. Montello and Holley Moyes List of Contributors   |   397 Index   |   399 ...

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