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10 papers from the session entitled Cognitive Archaeology as Symbolic Archaeology presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006).

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Author:   Fernando Coimbra ,  George Dimitriadis
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 1737
Weight:   0.291kg
ISBN:  

9781407301792

ISBN 10:   1407301799
Pages:   73
Publication Date:   15 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1) 'In the eye of the beholder': a re-evaluation of passage tombs in the Irish Neolithic landscape through the integration of spatial, visibility and archaeoastronomical data (Frank Prendergast); 2) The significance of the sun, moon and celestial bodies to societies in the Carpathian Basin during the Bronze Age (Emilia Pasztor); 3) The ""domestication"" of the world into a house and a home: Cosmographic symbolism as a basic expression of the human mind (Michael Rappenglück); 4) The ship and its symbolism in European prehistory (Andrea Vianello); 5) Cognitive archaeology, rock art and achaeoastronomy: interrelated disciplines (Fernando Coimbra); 6) Space Analysis as Cognitive Approach to Prehistoric Mentality (George Dimitriadis); 7) Fertility kits. A possible approach of the female representations in Precucuteni - Cucuteni cultures (Romeo Dumitrescu); 8) Symbolic technologies in Chalcolithic Clay Cultures (Dragos Gheorghiu); 9) Organisation d'un sanctuaire rupestre: les rochers de Creysseilles (Ardèche) (Philippe Hameau); 10) Simbologie du Métal: le cas des dépôts dans les Alpes de l'Ouest au Bronze Final (Davide Delfino)"

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