Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods: A Natural History of Religion

By Ina Wunn and Davina Grojnowski

Book Overview

Of Men and Apes.- The Crux of a Darwinian Approach to Evolution.- The Question of When? (Lower Palaeolithic, c. 2.6 mybp - 300,000 ybp).- My Cave is my Castle - Middle Palaeolithic, Territoriality, and Death.- Existential Fears - and an Excursus in Art History.- A Forest of Symbols - the Art of the European Upper Palaeolithic (40,000-12,000ybp).- The Change of Imagery (the Central European Mesolithic, approx. 9,600-5,800 ybp).- Aedificio Ergo Sum (I build, thus I am). Early Settlers in the Fertile Crescent.- The village, the ritual, and death.- Ex Oriente Lux: Neolithic ideology becomes popular.- Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries - the male Principle and collective Cult.- The exchange of gifts and the Underworld: Malta.- The Double Axe and the Bull - a Pantheon Develops.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662570785
• ISBN13: 9783662570784
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"