Morphologically composite caves constitute a unique spatial sphere for social activity,
remote and different from everyday landscapes. As in numerous regions with carbonate …

This article seeks to contribute to recent scholarship on ritual performances in caves,
sensory archaeology and ritual journeys, and to stimulate fresh questions and debate about …

From the onset, phenomenological perspectives in archaeological interpretation have been
fraught with controversy. Early reactions to a phenomenological approach did a great deal to …

Although caves have been used for funerary purposes almost since the dawn of time, there
is very little evidence of such use in Central European Barbaricum. This paper presents …

ABSTRACT Bronze Age Europe has been described as the first globalized economy: long-
distance trade in bronze and other materials is seen as centrally implicated in the social and …

Rituals are central to the everyday life of the nurse, yet the fundamental roles that rituals play
in caring for the dead and dying has often been neglected. This paper explores modern …

Serbia is a country with diverse karst terrain, full of various surface and underground karst
formations. This terrain is one of the factors that influenced the development of cultures and …

Family history research has seen a surge in popularity in recent years; however, is this
preoccupation with who we are and where we come from new? Archaeological evidence …

The story of the introduction of the worship of Pan into Attica is well-known, recounted by the
fifth-century historian Herodotus. This chapter offers a preliminary assessment of the finds …

In this thesis I present a novel re-examination of the burial practices of the British Beaker
period, c. 2450–1950 BC, along with an exploration of how our understandings of the period …