As material reflections of human identity and behaviour, heritage assets are often viewed as a source of belonging and existential awareness. In recent years, these impacts have been shown to promote personal wellbeing in ways which align with the therapeutic concept of existential relatedness. Defined as a feeling of deep connection to something greater than the self, existential relatedness has been identified as a fundamental component of personal wellbeing. In light of findings from qualitative work undertaken in the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site (WHS) and the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK, and their environs, this paper considers the capacity for these prehistoric landscapes to facilitate a sense of existential relatedness for people in the present. As a result of this exploration, it suggests that, in certain contexts, the historic environment has a unique role to play in the creation of existential wellbeing through the cultural, collective and transcendent connections that it affords. The paper further theorizes that the feeling of connectivity which many people experience in response to heritage assets is essentially a form of communitas, and perhaps one of the greatest social benefits that the historic environment has to offer.

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存在相关性场所：来自英国威尔特郡埃夫伯里巨石阵和佩西谷的现象学研究结果

作为人类身份和行为的物质反映，遗产资产通常被视为归属感和存在意识的来源。近年来，这些影响已被证明可以以与存在相关性的治疗概念相一致的方式促进个人福祉。被定义为与比自我更重要的事物建立深层联系的感觉，存在相关性已被确定为个人福祉的基本组成部分。根据在巨石阵和埃夫伯里世界遗产地 (WHS) 以及英国威尔特郡佩西谷及其周边地区开展的定性工作的结果，本文考虑了这些史前景观促进存在相关性的能力现在的人。这种探索的结果表明，在某些情况下，历史环境通过它提供的文化、集体和超然联系，在创造生存福祉方面发挥着独特的作用。该论文进一步推论，许多人在回应遗产资产时所体验到的连通感本质上是一种社区形式，也许是历史环境必须提供的最大社会效益之一。