Sublime

From all this evidence, Stephen Aldhouse-Green and his team concluded that the dead man had most probably possessed some kind of spiritual function among his people.

The third is how much changing cultural patterns in the present, and very recent past, have influenced scholarly reconstructions of ancient paganism.

Again, these grave goods are most easily interpreted as having a ritual function.

The definitions offered and explained there will be retained here.

Such a capacity was manifested with particular strength as anatomically modern humans reached north-western Europe from about 42,000 BC onwards:

In addition, this book explicitly poses, and attempts to answer, four more questions.

No period of British history or prehistory has been so dramatically reconfigured than the New Stone Age.

It is associated with an outstanding scholar, William Buckland, the son of a Dorset clergyman who had lost his vision in an accident.

Studies of traditional peoples in modern times have revealed that they commonly viewed stoves, weapons, tools and ornaments as living entities.