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Locations of Cornish cairns in relation to the Rough Tor effect Time and Mind Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Roger Farnworth, Peter Herring, Bryn Tapper, Cathy Rozel Farnworth
Hundreds of round cairns and barrows survive on the granite uplands of Bodmin Moor, with hundreds more beyond the Moor, including along the Cornish coast. We posit that their distribution is far fr...
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Pictorial graffiti of a horse rider and an orans from Byzantine Shivta: some thoughts on context and interpretation Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Emma Maayan-Fanar, Yotam Tepper
The ruins of Byzantine Shivta, dominated by its three monumental churches, are visible from afar in the Negev Desert environment. They attract occasional visitors, tourists, pilgrims, and nomads wh...
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The Rough Tor Effect: early prehistoric monuments focusing on significant tors in Cornwall Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Roger Farnworth, Peter Herring, Bryn Tapper, Cathy Rozel Farnworth
ABSTRACT A ceremonial monument cannot function without those people who carry knowledge of its metaphysics and practice, and it cannot continue into the future without instruction in its meaning. In this paper, we attempt to recover the meaning of Neolithic tradition as enacted on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall where prominent hills can be viewed at a great distance. It has long been recognised that hundreds
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Archaeology at the intersection between cognitive neuroscience, performance theory, and architecture: from psychoactive substances to rock art and bone shelters Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Martina Revello Lami, Mónica Palmero Fernandez
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Living inside a mammoth Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Varol Koç
ABSTRACT The mammoth bone heaps found by a villager in the year 1965 have the potential to be a source of scientific discourse ranging from the intersection of archaeological history and architecture to the fields of anthropology, psychology, and the history of religions. In Central Ukraine, as a result of the archaeological studies, four huts consisting of approximately 150 mammoth bones were found
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Performance theory: a growing interest in rock art research Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-03-13 David M. Witelson
ABSTRACT It is always surprising to find clear examples in archaeology of researchers with common interests working, albeit unintentionally, without any awareness of their colleagues’ allied research. The sub-discipline of rock art research provides a striking example. All rock art practices involve performances of one kind or another. While performance is notionally implicated in rock art studies
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Apolline divination: hallucinogenic substances or cognitive inputs? The case of the laurel Time and Mind Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Giulia Frigerio
ABSTRACT The use of laurel in Apolline divination at Delphi has been a prominent area of interest in academic debates over the possible influence of drugs on prophets. Previous analyses revealed the absence of chemicals in the bay capable of altering the human consciousness. In this paper, I argue that the laurel did nevertheless have the power to influence the Pythia’s mind through its cognitive impact
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Of rock art, storytelling, food and sacred groves Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Martina Revello Lami
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The World of Stonehenge Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Diana Coles
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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The Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography, and Astronomy in Ancient Greece Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Anthony F. Aveni
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Identifying iconographic evidence for a mushroom cult in the preliterate Southern Levant Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Estelle Orrelle
ABSTRACT Cultures using mind-altering psychedelic mushrooms in literate periods have been identified in the ancient Near East. key to their recognition in preliterate periods. One may assume that psychedelic substances such as mushrooms were elevated to the status of gods, and their secret identity embedded in the iconography of material items in a variety of media. I trace some of these images from
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Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Ethan Doyle White
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Robert Weiner
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ Interpretation of Dreams Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Jenny Wallensten
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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A sense of direction: spatial boundaries in a cognitive, cultural, and deep time perspective Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Mette Løvschal, Joshua Charles Skewes
ABSTRACT This brief note points toward new potentials that lie at the interface between research on landscape archaeology and cognitive science. Recent advances in the cognitive and neural sciences have sharpened our understanding of spatial cognition, by providing new explanations for how the brain reduces the dimensionality of complex topography and geography for effective navigation. This research
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Phallic imagery in Northern Plains Indian rock art Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Max Carocci
ABSTRACT Depictions of male primary sexual characteristics are extremely varied and relatively frequent in Plains Indian rock art. These representations have been usually associated with shamanic practice, mythical themes, and fertility. However, existing explanations ought to be evaluated against cultural models and various strands of evidence derived from ethnographic parallels and semiotics so as
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How food fueled language, Part II: language genres, songs in the head, and the coevolution of cooking and language Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Jake Young
ABSTRACT This paper examines how cooking and language emerged and coevolved as drivers of human creativity. Through this dynamic coevolutionary process, shifts in diet affected demographics, which increased social and cognitive complexity, leading to new technological and social innovations, and eventually genetic changes. A work of interdisciplinary synthesis, this paper combines work from diverse
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Mesolithic shadow play? Exploring the performative attributes of a zoomorphic wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) antler artefact from Finland Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Marja Ahola, Katri Lassila
ABSTRACT Throughout history, humans have told stories to one another. Although these stories have largely disappeared over the course of time, they have sometimes left material remains, for instance in the form of rock art. However, rock art might not be the only materialization of prehistoric storytelling practices. On the contrary, if made active again, other prehistoric artefacts might also bring
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How food fueled language, Part I: human creativity and the coevolution of cooking and language Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Jake Young
ABSTRACT Humans are unique in their creative abilities and this creativity likely arose as a result of self-domestication. Language use would have been a driver of early human self-domestication, and this paper examines how the controlled use of fire for cooking was an early driver in the development of language. Cooking allowed for greater caloric intake and a greater diversity of diet, contributing
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Creativity, earthquakes, labour, and celestial landscapes Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Mónica Palmero Fernández, Martina Revello Lami
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022)
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Biocultural approaches to sustainability: role of indigenous knowledge systems in biodiversity conservation of West Bengal, India Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Uday Kumar Sen, Ram Kumar Bhakat
ABSTRACT Sacred groves are tracts of richly diverse virgin forest, protected for centuries by the local people for cultural and religious beliefs and taboos. They believe that the deities live in these groves and save the villagers from various calamities. In terms of biodiversity, history, and religious and ethnic heritage, sacred groves form an inextricable link between the present society and the
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Fluidities of personhood in the idioms of the Maloti-Drakensberg, past and present, and their use in incorporating contextual ethnographies in southern African rock art research Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Andrew Skinner, Sam Challis
ABSTRACT In the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains of southern Africa, beliefs about snakes and their representations in rock art images are emblematic of hybrid histories of regional societies. The snake symbol initially represented an attempt at ‘reaching out’ as forager societies incorporated a prominent figure in the mythologies of incoming societies into their own – a figure which became a symbolic
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Historical background of Malaysian Tamil folk songs Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Kingston Pal Thamburaj, Logeswary Arumugum
ABSTRACT This study aimed to discover the historical background of the Malaysian Tamil folk songs. Qualitative approaches with historical, descriptive and explanatory designs were used for this study. Apart from the historical background, information on the characteristics and essence of the Malaysian Tamil folk songs are also discussed in this paper. The researcher used information from sources on
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Neurotheology, creativity and bipolarity: divergent thinking and hypomanic traits among Arab college students Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Justin Thomas, Arwa Al-Hammadi
ABSTRACT The idea of a connection between creativity and psychopathology has been attributed to our earliest human ancestors. It is also a notion that has, historically, been expressed across cultures. Contemporary research exploring the link between creativity and psychopathology, however, is equivocal. More recently, it has been hypothesized that this is only a subset of mental health problems that
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Stone rain: the strange case of nuclear folklore in Iran’s post-1979 revolution major earthquakes Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Leila Papoli-Yazdi
ABSTRACT Iran lies in an earthquake belt, and many Iranians have highlighted memories of natural disasters. While visiting Bam, a city destroyed by a severe earthquake, my team and I realized that some inhabitants attribute the disaster to nuclear tests. These rumours were also heard from the survivors of the earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab in 2018. Looking deeper into the roots of nuclear rumours, I
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Orion as a celestial representation of Wākea as determined from Kūkaniloko on O’ahu in the Hawaiian Islands Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Martha H. Noyes
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether in Hawaiʻi, Orion – one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky – represents Wākea, the best known cosmogonic male progenitor of Hawaiian cosmogony. Wākea, commonly referred to as Sky Father and the ‘wide expanse of the sky,’ is noted in the name for the celestial equator, Ke ala i ka piko o Wākea (the path to the navel/center of Wākea), with
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Magic, metallurgy and imagination in medieval Ireland: three studies Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Jeremy Harte
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022)
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Supernatural cities: enchantment, anxiety and spectrality Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-02-19 Tina Paphitis
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022)
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These silent mansions: a life in graveyards Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Jenny Walklate
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022)
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Making journeys: archaeologies of mobility Time and Mind Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Bob Trubshaw
Published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022)
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“ … Not the action of mind upon matter, but the action of mind-matter upon matter-mind … ”: a world of many minds in archaeology and ethnography Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Jack Hunter
(2021). “ … Not the action of mind upon matter, but the action of mind-matter upon matter-mind … ”: a world of many minds in archaeology and ethnography. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 481-485.
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Material culture and consciousness: a thought experiment Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-11-06 Michael Shapland
ABSTRACT Archaeology has become good at using metaphors for the person-like properties of material culture, seeing objects as accruing life-histories and biographies. This paper seeks to further this debate by introducing an old concept – known as panpsychism – which has experienced a resurgence in modern physics. It holds that sentience is a universally distributed property of the material world,
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Precolonial soundscapes of Swahili coastal towns in East Africa Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Monika Baumanova
ABSTRACT This paper aims to open the discussion on the characteristics of the acoustic landscapes in precolonial Swahili towns on the East African coast, where this theme to date remains unstudied. The paper focuses on assessing some aspects of the acoustic experience in the precolonial period of AD 1200–1600 respective to the towns and to coral-rag houses, which represent one type of building recorded
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Upper Palaeolithic art as a perceptual search for magical images Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Derek Hodgson
ABSTRACT Perceptual psychology has provided a number of revealing insights into the phenomenon of palaeoart. The value of the discipline is underlined by the fact that it has provided new ways of exploring how Upper Palaeolithic cave art first arose, both on a theoretical and a practical level. Despite this, the approach has been accused of overstating the importance of perceptual factors to the detriment
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Fielding the mind in the high North Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-20
(2021). Fielding the mind in the high North. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, Minding Arctic Fields, pp. 343-344.
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Minding Arctic Fields Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-20
(2021). Minding Arctic Fields. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, Minding Arctic Fields, pp. 345-347.
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Minding the field: sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-06
ABSTRACT This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process
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A borderland on the edge of materiality: ancient remains, storied landscapes, and community narratives from the arm of Finland Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-20
ABSTRACT In past decades landscapes have become recognized as essentially liminal systems: there has been an increased appreciation for the embeddedness of lived experiences of places in four-dimensional space-time and the landscape’s connections with perceptions, stories, the material and immaterial pasts, as well as the material and immaterial present and future. Kilpisjärvi is such a place where
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Minoan Lapland: fieldwork, spirituality and connecting across time and space Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-11 Vesa-Pekka Herva
ABSTRACT For many years, I believed that fieldwork is primarily about systematic data collection. Only gradually did I begin to understand that fieldwork has several other, equally meaningful dimensions to it. This essay reflects on archaeological and anthropological fieldwork as inspiration and as a kind of a meditative (or a broadly spiritual) practice that, a little like ‘altered states of consciousness’
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Encountering/thinking mosquitos Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-08-15
ABSTRACT The essay maps and reflects on some dimensions of human–mosquito interaction in the context of the Arctic and inspired by fieldwork in Finnish Lapland. Rather than developing any particular argument, we seek to document this thinking mosquito as a collection of glimpses, fragments and musings. This impressionistic approach was inspired by conversations among the authors and with environmental
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Rain, reindeer, digging and tundra: children’s visual perception of an archaeological expedition to Northernmost Sápmi (Finnish Lapland) Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-21
ABSTRACT In this paper Idiscuss aset of photographs taken by my daughters with disposable cameras, to consider how they perceived an archaeological expedition to northernmost Sápmi (Finnish Lapland). My daughters’ photographic documentation illustrates the views that children from southern Finland have on archaeological fieldwork in an extreme northern environment. Their photographs resemble partly
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Holding ground and loitering around: long-term research partnerships and understanding culture change dilemmas of indigenous Saami Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Hannu I. Heikkinen
ABSTRACT Indigenous peoples live their modernity alongside majority populations and global change processes. This is the case with indigenous Saami who descend from a long lineage of nomadic reindeer-herding families and who now live and herd reindeer in and around the small tourism town of Kilpisjärvi (Gilbbesjávri), Finland. Saami reindeer nomadism was a highly mobile way of life at the turn of the
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Northern Archaeology and Cosmology: A Relational View Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-18
(2021). Northern Archaeology and Cosmology: A Relational View. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, Minding Arctic Fields, pp. 475-477.
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Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse legend and myth Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-14
(2021). Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse legend and myth. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, Minding Arctic Fields, pp. 477-478.
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Notice of Correction Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-11
(2021). Notice of Correction. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, Minding Arctic Fields, pp. 479-479.
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Notice of Correction Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-07-11
(2021). Notice of Correction. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 549-549.
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Blood rush: the dark history of a vital fluid Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-06-19 Jenny Walklate
(2021). Blood rush: the dark history of a vital fluid. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 537-539.
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The rock art landscapes of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-06-12 Robert Wallis
(2021). The rock art landscapes of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 547-548.
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Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-06-12 Cornelius Holtorf
(2021). Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 543-546.
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Wanderland: a search for magic in the landscape Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-06-12 Tina Paphitis
(2021). Wanderland: a search for magic in the landscape. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 539-543.
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Stone, people and place Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Jack Hunter
(2021). Stone, people and place. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 179-180.
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Hypoxia in Paleolithic decorated caves: the use of artificial light in deep caves reduces oxygen concentration and induces altered states of consciousness Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar, Ran Barkai
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a novel hypothesis as to what led humans in the Upper Paleolithic to penetrate and decorate deep, dark caves. Many of the depictions in these caves are located in halls or narrow passages deep in the interior, navigable only with artificial light. We simulated the effect of torches on oxygen concentrations in structures similar to Paleolithic decorated caves and showed
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Pueblo ethnography, Sopris archaeology, and the sacred geography of sopris rock art Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Thomas N. Huffman, Frank Lee Earley
ABSTRACT The Sopris archaeological culture in southeastern Colorado was first identified as Puebloan and then later as local hunter-gatherers influenced by trade with the Northern Rio Grande area. By applying Eastern Pueblo ethnography, we show that the earlier interpretation is better. Physical emphases on such profound cultural features as dualism, cardinal directions, and kiva equivalents cannot
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Great houses for whom?: Chacoan monumental architecture in cross-cultural, cognitive, and ethnohistorical perspective Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Robert S. Weiner, Ema L. Smith
ABSTRACT This paper offers a new interpretation of Chacoan Great Houses, multistoried masonry structures of the 9th-12th century U.S. Southwest, using insights from animist ontologies, cognitive science, cross-cultural analysis, and ethnohistory. Throughout time and space, societies have constructed buildings to serve as dwelling places for animate, divine entities immanent in material objects. We
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Probabilities of designed locations of ceremonial foci: the Chaco Meridian, temple IV at Tikal, and a large-scale sacred Adena river landscape Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Dennis Doxtater
ABSTRACT Considering that prehistoric cultures may have had the socio-religious need and technical ability to create accurate geometric patterns across a large landscape, limited ethnographic and archaeologic evidence are reviewed. Simple but accurate land surveying is discussed. Since any set of existing sites at larger scales coincidentally creates accurate three-point alignments and right-angles
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Myth written in stone. The submerged monument in the kinneret sea in the light of the ugaritic myth of aqhat Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Michael Freikman, Shmuel Marco
ABSTRACT The literary corpus found in Ugarit/Ras Shamra includes some 1500 administrative and religious texts found so far. One of the most famous texts is the myth of Aqhat, who was murdered by an assassin, and whose death was avenged by his family. Many literary and grammatical aspects of this text have been widely discussed during the last decades. They mostly treat it as a purely fictional story
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Diversity, connectivity and change Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Tina Paphitis
(2021). Diversity, connectivity and change. Time and Mind: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Conservation of resources by religious and social prohibitions by Santal communities in South West Bengal, India Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Uday Kumar Sen, Ram Kumar Bhakat
ABSTRACT Sacred groves are generally considered as socio-culturally preserved patches of plants primarily managed by tribal groups. Such groves are usually believed to be as the abodes of gods, goddesses, spirits or supernatural artefacts. Generally, they are predominantly worshipped, managed and protected by the tribal groups with religious zeal. Such groves mainly serve as the benchmarks of less
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Moving down the mountain: pathways for sacred landscape transformation at ancient Epidaurus and Nemea Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Natalie M. Susmann
ABSTRACT This paper explores reciprocal relationships between landscape, human attention, and time. I present two sacred landscapes: Epidaurus and Nemea, located in Greece's northeastern Peloponnese. In both landscapes, worshipers created sanctuaries on prominent mountains. Eventually, their attention shifted downhill where they built larger, monumental sanctuaries on the flat ground. I trace each
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From Hard Bed to Luxury Home: The Metamorphosis of HM Prison Pentridge Time and Mind Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Waled Shehata, M. Sarvimäki, C. Langston
ABSTRACT Given all the uncomfortableness, fears, shame, and troubles associated with memories of Australian carceral history, it is surprising that Australians are interested in reusing sites of decommissioned prisons at all. The uncomfortable past juxtaposes basic ideas of preservation, not to mention the further transformation of old gaols to places for comfortable residences and shops. Her Majesty’s