Archaeology of Spiritualities

Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Jud

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Series Editors Heather Burke Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Gustavo Politis Universidad Nacional del Centro, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gabriel Cooney University College, Dublin, Ireland

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Kathryn Rountree Christine Morris Alan A.D. Peatfield ●

Editors

Archaeology of Spiritualities

Editors Kathryn Rountree School of People, Environment and Planning Massey University Auckland, New Zealand

Alan A.D. Peatfield School of Archaeology University College Dublin Newman Building, UCD, Dublin 4, Ireland

Christine Morris Department of Classics, School of Histories and Humanities Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Introduction

Exploring New Approaches to the Archaeology of Spiritualities In September 2011, as we were editing this volume, our attention was caught by an online article in Archaeology News Network about a team of Oxford University scientists who were engaged in a project aiming “to produce a global map of th