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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 ...