A consideration in the light of neuroscience and evolutionary theories.
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Summary
is the central element of the present observations of the phenomenon in a number of archaeological findings and written records documented in ancient notion of the sanctity of certain places and objects. A separate excursus is devoted to the Gallo-Roman temple dealing as they provide an in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire is dominant temple form.
the author, the intention is not original archaeological theories deductively to declare a pre-and early historical phenomenon applies. The spatial and temporal coverage form the provinces of Roman North West, but are always used other cultures when it comes to the convergence of certain aspects. These theories derive primarily of sociobiology and evolutionary biology, in addition come Constructivism and to a lesser extent Blackmore's theory of memes are used: ie theories that are aggravated by the revolutionary findings of neuroscience in recent years are discussed in the natural and social sciences.
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introduction of the author
Below are treated by an archaeologist questions that sometimes leave the framework of Archaeology seemingly far behind . More recently - based on rational science from antiquity through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to the modern cognitive sciences - Is increasingly being considered subject to human culture in all its facets as the same laws, it seems to be all life. Considering the problems that resulted from the collision of Darwin's theory of evolution with individual ideas of "divine creation" and also showed still, one may understand incurred tensions when the question of the meaning behind all reality no more than considered unanswerable, but found to be false, (1) are considered Constructivist sense and meaning of life is a construct of our brain, outside of it they are in an objective for us is not perceptible, but (again subjectively) as the bitter cold, colorless and profoundly indifferent to divine reality is simply not necessary. In the resulting rational scientific debate can and must play an important role in archeology: Evolutionary regularities following developments are quickly back thousands of years, it is also long-gone cultures are much easier to talk about feelings than about our own society. Perhaps for that very reason as classical scholar Walter Burkert wrote his view of the biological foundations of religion (2) - a work that's been a rich source of inspiration.
In the present treatise current theories mostly from the area of science, specifically applied to archaeological findings. Unfortunately, the knowledge of the past very patchy and lore reasons, will hardly avoidable inaccuracies and generalizations, I apologize.
I thank the Graduate School "Space and Ritual" at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. For suggestions and discussion, I am also Constanze Conrad, Annette Frey, Isabel Kappesser and Anke Scholz debt of gratitude. Christopher Pare I thank for the unusual freedom I in the classification of duty and choice at the Institute of Prehistory and Early History the University of Mainz enjoy. Finally, I am connected my private environment for leniency for my little free time.
(1) See also: R. Dawkins, God's utility function. Spektr. d. Wissensch. 1 / 1996, 94-100.
(2) W. Burkert, cults of antiquity. Biological Basis of Religion (Munich 1998).
Author: Peter Main
Year: 2010
368 pages in A4 format, 130 illustrations, 84 in color
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