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In the realm of rock art, humanlike images appear widely through
time and space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and
Bronze Ages, and for some continents to later, yet still
prehistoric, times. The artworks discussed in Anthropomorphic
Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings range from
paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock
shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing
stones, and major sacred sites (among them Gobekli Tepe, Avebury,
Stonehenge, and the Palaeolithic Chauvet Cave) in which the
possibility exists of recovery of the meanings intended by the
artists and sculptors. Such prospects can relate to known or
inferred legends, myths, folklore, rites and ritual, and often
allude to matters that recognise the unremitting benefits of human,
animal and crop fertility to humankind. Occasionally, relevant art
forms are present not in whole but as pars pro toto, in which a
part stands for or symbolises the whole. Images or artistic
compositions often articulate, in ways more or less manifest,
scenes of dramatic action as with hunting and dancing, mating and
birthing, ritual and ceremony, some of which may openly or latently
express yearnings for the rewards of fruitful fecundity - as with
the much-loved worldview known as the hieros gamos or Sacred
Marriage.
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'Shamanism' is a term with specific anthropological roots, but
which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between
a practitioner or 'shaman' and a spiritual or religious realm
beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often
been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book
gathers the most recent studies on a subject which has not been
comprehensively studied by archaeologists. By putting together
experts from two continents who have studied the phenomenon of
shamanism, Lands of the Shamans through carefully selected case
studies uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans'
worldview, landscape and cosmology. Recent interdisciplinary
studies support the idea of the existence of shamanistic
representations as long ago as the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic, but
at the same time, do not follow developments during the history of
humankind. As ethnographic evidence shows, shamanistic activity
represents a complex phenomenon that is extremely diversified, its
spiritual activity possessing a large variety of expressions in the
material culture. In other words, shamanism could be defined as a
series of differing spiritual world views which model the material
culture and the landscape. Throughout the archaeological record of
all prehistoric and historic periods, there is a series of visual
representations and objects and landscape alterations that could be
ascribed to these differing world views, many thought to represent
shamanistic cognition and activity. The shaman's landscape reveals
itself to the world as one of multifaceted spiritual and material
activity. Consequently, this first book dedicated completely to the
shamanistic landscape presents in fresh perspective the landscapes
of the lower and upper worlds as well as their phenomenological
experience. Case Studies come from Europe, North America and Asia.
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