03747nam 2200685 450 991081938740332120200520144314.01-4422-4290-6(CKB)2670000000590737(EBL)1910181(SSID)ssj0001402613(PQKBManifestationID)12547486(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402613(PQKBWorkID)11359676(PQKB)10950574(MiAaPQ)EBC1910181(Au-PeEL)EBL1910181(CaPaEBR)ebr11025273(CaONFJC)MIL687795(OCoLC)899134772(EXLCZ)99267000000059073720140925h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origins of religion in the Paleolithic /Gregory J. WightmanLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,[2015]©20151 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-4289-2 1-322-56513-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Figures; Maps; Chapter One: Introduction; Part I: The Embodied Brain: Neuropsychology and Religious Ritual; Chapter Two: Mirroring and Empathy; Chapter Three: Acting in Concert; Synchrony and Joint Action; Synchrony, Mirroring, and Ritual; Chapter Four: The Malleable Brain; Chapter Five: Ritualizing Sound and Movement; Notes; Chapter Six: Projecting the Self; Sensed Presences; Anthropomorphism; Chapter Seven: External Agents; Ultimate Sources of Power; Ethics, Morality, and Compliance; Supernatural Agents; Chapter Eight: Language, Ritual, and Religion; NoteChapter Nine: Dynamic Fields of ConsciousnessChapter Ten: Private and Corporate Ritual; Part II: The Embedded Body: From Routines to Rituals through Material Engagements; Chapter Eleven: First Stirrings; Antecedents, 6.0-3.5 mya; Archaic Hominins, 3.5-1.7 mya; Notes; Chapter Twelve: Negotiating Land; Moving through Land; Stopping Places; Fire; Monumentalizing the Landscape; Chapter Thirteen: Tools, Minds, and Rituals; Chapter Fourteen: Making a Mark; Emergence of Marking; Object Curation and Anthropomorphism; Manipulation of Colored Pigments; Marking the Living BodyChapter Fifteen: Death and BeyondDeath Awareness; Neanderthal Burials; Animal Burials and Bone Caching; Notes; Chapter Sixteen: African Sapients, 200-50 kya; Monuments and Landscape Marking; Materials as "Symbols"; Burial Rituals; Notes; Chapter Seventeen: The Emergence of Religious Ritual; Before the Paleolithic; The Lower Paleolithic; The Middle Paleolithic; Looking Forward; References; Index; About the Author<span><span>Gregory J. Wightman explores the significance of goal-directed action and the rise of material culture in this intricate, evidence-based examination of religion's earliest origins.</span></span>Religion, PrehistoricPrehistoric peoplesPsychologyMaterial cultureCognition and culturePaleolithic periodArchaeology and religionReligion, Prehistoric.Prehistoric peoplesPsychology.Material culture.Cognition and culture.Paleolithic period.Archaeology and religion.201/.42Wightman G. J.487999MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819387403321The origins of religion in the Paleolithic4078348UNINA