Cover
Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Note on Radiocarbon Dating
Introduction
Part I: Old World Ritual Cave Traditions
1. Ritual Cave Use in European Paleolithic Caves
2. Constructed Caves
3. Caves of the Living, Caves of the Dead
4. Landscapes of Ritual, Identity, and Memory
5. Caves and the Funerary Landscape of Prehistoric Britain
6. The Subterranean Landscape of the Southern Levant during the Chalcolithic Period
7. The Chamber of Secrets
8. Caves as Sacred Spaces on the Tibetan Plateau
9. Differential Australian Cave and Rockshelter Use during the Pleistocene and Holocene
Part II: New World Ritual Cave Traditions
10. Caves as Sacred Space in Mesoamerica
11. Footsteps in the Dark Zone
12. Forty Years’ Pursuit of Human Prehistory in the World Underground
13. A New Overview of Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeast
14. Reevaluating Cave Records
15. Ceremonial Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ohio
16. The Ritual Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ozark Prehistory
Part III: Case Studies in Ritual Cave Use
17. The Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo)
18. Recognizing Ritual in the Dark
19. Sacred Spaces, Sacred Species
20. Ritual Cave Use in the Bahamas
Part IV: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Studies
21. Caves in Ireland
22. Caves in Black and White
23. Where the Wild Things Are
24. Ritual Uses of Caves in West Malaysia
25. A Quantitative Literature Survey Regarding the Uses and Perceptions of Caves among Nine Indigenous Andean Societies
26. Caves and Related Sites in the Great Plains of North America
Part V: New Approaches
27. Civilizing the Cave Man
28. Caves and Spatial Constraint
29. Why Dark Zones Are Sacred
Contributors
Index