Archaeology Of Religion

Bemerkungen zu einigen Buntmetallfunden aus dem ehemaligen Zisterzienserkloster Buch, Lkr. Döbeln, Sachsen. In: C. Theune/F. Biermann/R. Struwe/G. Jeute (Hg.), Zwischen Fjorden und Steppe. Festschr. Johan Callmer (Rahden/Westf. 2010), 509-514.

by Eric Müller

„…Die Erde bewahrt die Leiber auf, die unterirdischen Kammern die Seelen". Der Erdstall und das slawische Gräberfeld von Niederwünsch (Saalekreis/Sachsen Anhalt). Der Erdstall 38/2012.

by Eric Müller

Animating rituals at Sámi sacred sites in northern Finland

by Sanna Lipkin

Lipkin_Textile-making and religion

by Sanna Lipkin

Textile-making and religion in central Tyrrhenian Italy. In: Äikäs, T., Lipkin, S. Salmi, A.-K. (eds) ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS Ten Case Studies by Finnish Archaeologists. Studia Humaniora Ouluensia 12, 2012.

Signs of Power and Resistance: The (Re)Creation of Christian Imagery and Identities in the Pueblo Revolt Era. In Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt, edited by Robert W. Preucel. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

by Matthew Liebmann

Published 2002.

Archaeology of sieidi stones. Excavating sacred places

by Tiina Äikäs

Published in "The Diversity of Sacred Lands in Europe. Proceedings of the Third Workshop of the Delos Initiative", 2012

Tesis de licenciatura

by Pablo Mignone

Mascaritas de plata del santuario de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho/ Small Silver Masks from the sanctuary of Coimbra del Barranco Ancho.

by Francisco Gil González

La pieza del otoño 2011. Museo Municipal “Jerónimo Molina”. (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) / The piece of autumn 2011. Municipal Museum "Jerónimo Molina." (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain).
Francisco Gil González

They come from a votive deposit or favissa in the sanctuary of the iberian site of Coimbra del Barranco excavated in... more They come from a votive deposit or favissa in the sanctuary of the iberian site of Coimbra del Barranco excavated in 1993. The dating of the deposit is provided, indirectly, by a dove-shaped pendant identical to another from the tomb 27 of the “El Poblado” necropolis of the same site, with fragments of Campanian pottery of type Lamb. 27. These bowls are the most frequent among the more recent imports documented at the site, and in all cases in which the interior decoration is preserved, it consists of a central rosette with six petals printed in relief, around a central button. Correspond to the group of Mid Campanian A, defined by Morel and initially dated from 200-180 BC, which has generally been associated with the advance of Roman troops at the beginning of s. II B.C. but, however, faced with this classic dating, in the present investigation there is a tendency to reviewing this chronology, suggesting that the arrival of this ceramic facies could correspond to the moments of the Second Punic War at the end of s. III B.C. (GRAU, OLMOS, y PEREA, 2008: 12-13).
Bibliography:
GRAU, I.; OLMOS, R. y PEREA, A., 2008: “La habitación sagrada de la ciudad ibérica de la Serreta”. Archivo Español de Arqueología,81, 2008. Madrid, 5-29.

Proceden de un depósito votivo o favissa del santuario ibérico de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho excavado en 1993. La datación del depósito la proporciona, de forma indirecta, un colgante en forma de paloma idéntico a otro procedente de la tumba 27 de la necrópolis de “El Poblado” del mismo yacimiento, con fragmentos de cerámica campaniense de la forma Lamb. 27. Estos boles son los más frecuentes entre las importaciones más recientes documentadas en el yacimiento. En todos los casos en que se ha conservado la decoración del interior, consiste en una roseta central impresa en relieve de seis pétalos, alrededor de un botón central. Corresponden al grupo de campaniense A media, definido por Morel y datado inicialmente entre el 200-180 a.C., que generalmente se ha asociado al avance de las tropas romanas a inicios del s. II a.C. pero, no obstante, frente a esta datación clásica, en la investigación actual existe una tendencia a la revisión esta cronología, proponiendo que la llegada de esta facies cerámica podría corresponder a los momentos de la Segunda Guerra Púnica a fines del s. III a.C. (GRAU, OLMOS, y PEREA, 2008: 12-13).
Bibliografía:
GRAU, I.; OLMOS, R. y PEREA, A., 2008: “La habitación sagrada de la ciudad ibérica de la Serreta”. Archivo Español de Arqueología,81, 2008. Madrid, 5-29.

Sotto la protezione delle Eliadi. La collana della tomba 660 di Megara Iblea

by Stéphane Verger

Medicina nei secoli. Arte e scienza, 23/1, 2011, pp. 151-176

Una cueva santuario ibérica en la Sierra de los Hermanillos (Jumilla, Murcia)/ An Iberian Period sanctuary-cave in the Sierra de los Hermanillos (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain)

by Francisco Gil González

Pleita 1, 1998. Jumilla.
Emiliano Hernández Carrión, Francisco Gil González

Mainly we study the Iberian phase (fourth century BC) of one of the caves in the Sierra de los Hermanillos, identified... more Mainly we study the Iberian phase (fourth century BC) of one of the caves in the Sierra de los Hermanillos, identified as a sanctuary-cave, which is a new thing in Murcia, although these caves are well known in the surrounding areas of Alicante and Valencia.

A previous use of the cave is represented by Chalcolithic multiple burials, with objects such as fragments of plaster vessels.

Principalmente se estudia la fase ibérica (s. IV a.C.) de una de las cuevas de la Sierra de los Hermanillos, que se identifica como una cueva-santuario, lo que resulta novedoso en Murcia, aunque estas cuevas son bien conocidas en las zonas limítrofes de Alicante y Valencia.

Un uso previo de la cueva corresponde a enterramientos múltiples del Calcolítico, con objetos como fragmentos de vasos de yeso.

Los amuletos de tipo egipcio de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho/ The amulets of Egyptian type from the Necropolis of Coimbra del Barranco Ancho

by Francisco Gil González

La Pieza del Museo Arqueológico “Jerónimo Molina”. Jumilla. 2011.

Francisco Gil González, Rosa María Gualda Bernal.

Divulgative leaflet on the amulets of Egyptian type from the Necropolis of Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (graves 150 and... more Divulgative leaflet on the amulets of Egyptian type from the Necropolis of Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (graves 150 and 213 of the “Poblado” Necropolis and 31 of the “Senda” Necropolis).

The grave goods of the three tombs are female and they are rich graves, considering, for example, the number of imported Attic vases (of the first half of the fourth century BC). Graves 150 and 213 are among those that include a greater number of objects in the “Poblado” Necrópolis.


Folleto divulgativo sobre los amuletos de tipo egipcio procedentes de las Necrópolis de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (tumbas 150 y 213 de la Necrópolis de El Poblado y 31 de la Necrópolis de la Senda).

Los ajuares de estas tres tumbas son femeninos y se pueden considerar tumbas ricas, si se considera, por ejemplo, el número de vasos áticos importados (de la primera mitad del siglo IV a.C.). Las tumbas 150 y 213 se encuentran entre las que incluyen un mayor número total de objetos en la Necrópolis del Poblado.

Una terracota representando a la "Diosa Madre" procedente de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia) y la distribución de estas piezas en el Sureste / A terracotta representing the "Mother Goddess" from Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) and the distribution of these objets in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

by Francisco Gil González

Anales de Prehistoria y Arqueología, 11-12, 1995-1996. Murcia.
Francisco Gil González, Emiliano Hernández Carrión

The aim of this paper is to release to the public a mould-made fragment of terracotta (IV-III c. B.C.) found at... more The aim of this paper is to release to the public a mould-made fragment of terracotta (IV-III c. B.C.) found at Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain), which represents a sitting lady suckling a baby. It comes from the same mold that two others found in the Necrópolis of Cabecico del Tesoro (Verdolay, Murcia). We also study the scattering of these pieces in the Iberian Peninsula and their association with some other objets, the perfume burners with a woman-head shape among them.

El objeto del presente trabajo es dar a conocer un fragmento de terracota ibérica a molde, hallada en el yacimiento de Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia), que representa a una dama sendente amamantando a un niño, también se estudia la dispersión de estas piezas y su asociación con otros objetos. entre ellos los pebeteros en forma de cabeza femenina.

The Southern Temple of Tell el-Husn/Beth-Shean: The sacred architecture of Iron Age Palestine

by Gilberta Spreafico

published in Cordoba J.M. et al (edd.) 2008, Proceedins of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, pp. 181-202

In the twenties of the 20th century an expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum brought to light at Tell... more In the twenties of the 20th century an expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum brought to light at Tell el-Husn/Beth-Shean a sacred precinct of the Iron Age I, comprising a pair of temples characterized by an unusual plan. The origin of the Southern Temple planning concept, with the large long-room divided by two rows of columns into three aisles, was debated for a long time. Mariusz Burdajewicz suggested a comparison with
the Cypriote temples built at Kition and Palaepaphos during the 12th-13th centuries B.C., but in Palestine the Beth-Shean temples were the only examples of this architectural typology. The recent discovery of Complex 650 at Khirbet el-Muqanna‘/Ekron provided a new example of a temple with a long-room cella divided into three aisles and surrounded by a row of auxiliary rooms, offering new evidence for the reconstruction of the Iron Age sacred architecture.
Keywords: Tell el-Husn/Beth-Shean, Iron Age I Palestine, sacred architecture, Mariusz Burdajewicz, Khirbet el-Muqanna’/Ekron Complex 650.

Göbekli Tepe – insanlığın ilk kutsal anıtı

by Jens Notroff

(with O. Dietrich, Ç. Köksal-Schmidt, C. Kürkcüoglu, K. Schmidt), Aktüel Arkeoloji 26, Mart-Nisan 2012, 52-55.

Some notes about and a short account of recent finds and research results from the Early Neolithic hill sanctuary at... more Some notes about and a short account of recent finds and research results from the Early Neolithic hill sanctuary at Göbekli Tepe (in Turkish).

Göbekli Tepe – insanlığın ilk kutsal anıtı

by Oliver Dietrich

co-authored with Ç. Köksal-Schmidt, C. Kürkcüoglu, J. Notroff, K. Schmidt

Aktüel Arkeoloji 26, Mart-Nisan 2012, 52-55.

A short account of some recent finds from Göbekli - in Turkish. A short account of some recent finds from Göbekli - in Turkish.

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Irish National Strategic Research (INSTAR) Programme- Findings From the First Phase 2008-2011. Review' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Changing times, continuing traditions: the transfer of religious traditions at Jabal Harun

by Paula Kouki

In T. Äikäs, S. Lipkin & A.-K. Salmi (eds.): Archaeology of Social Relations: Ten Case Studies by Finnish Archaeologists, Studia Humaniora Ouluensia 12, 103–118.

The Archaeology of the Israelite Cult: Questioning the Consensus, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 360:23-35.

by Avraham Faust

BASOR articles are available on JSTOR and the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program (JSTOR CSP).

Israelite forms of religious expressions have received a great deal of scholarly attention by archaeologists and... more Israelite forms of religious expressions have received a great deal of scholarly attention by archaeologists and biblical scholars. Those scholars have scrutinized the available textual and archaeological data and a consensus about the frequency and distribution of Israelite places of cult seems to be emerging. The aim of the present article is to reexamine the available data on Israelite places of worship, within the broader Bronze and Iron Age context. The new examination suggests that current views of the ancient Israelite cultic sites, while producing many important new insights, focus on exceptional cases, which are viewed as representative samples of Israelite religion. The article concludes that a new approach to the study of Israelite cult is worthwhile, and that it has the potential to shed new light on Israelite religion.

GALICIA, LA CRISIS DEL SIGLO VIII Y LA TRANSICIÓN AL MUNDO MEDIEVAL. NUEVAS PROPUESTAS PARA VIEJOS PROBLEMAS Galicia, the 8th Century crisis and the transition to the medieval World. New proposals for old problems

by José Suárez Otero

Luis Caballero, Pedro Mateos y César García de Castro (coords.), "Asturias entre visigodos y mozárabes", Anexos a Archivo Español de Arqueología XLI (Madrid, en prensa), 413-439.

El texto trata un acercamiento a la formación del mundo medieval gallego, con el siglo VIII como punto de inflexión, a... more El texto trata un acercamiento a la formación del mundo medieval gallego, con el siglo VIII como punto de inflexión, a través de tres lugares comunes de la investigación gallega: las necrópolis, las laudas de doble estola y el yacimiento arqueológico bajo la catedral de Santiago. La dificultad que plantean unas necrópolis de configuración simple y datación imprecisa y en la que conviven continuidad y discontinuidad; la riqueza iconográfica de las cubiertas de sarcófago, poco tenida en cuenta en su contenido estilístico y simbólico; y un santuario cuyos orígenes están marcados por el mito, lo ideológico y una arqueología rica en contenidos, pero técnica y metodológicamente pobre, delinean una compleja convivencia entre la continuidad y el cambio, tanto en lo material como en lo superestructural, para los orígenes de la Galicia medieval.

This paper intends to be an approximation towards the formation of the medieval Galician world, taking the 8th century as inflection point and exploring three common places of the Galician research: necropolis, gravestones with double stole and the archaeological site under the cathedral of Santiago. These three aspects draw a complex coexistence between continuity and change, both material and super structural, for the origins of medieval Galicia. Firstly, the difficulty of understanding necropolis simply configured, imprecisely dated and where continuity and discontinuity coexist with each other. Secondly, the iconographic richness of the sarcophagi’s lids, with a stylistic and symbolic content hardly taken into account. And thirdly, a sanctuary whose origins are determined by the myth, the ideology and an archaeology full of contents but technical and methodological poor.

2004 From rock carvings to celtic weltanschauung in a ferradura: A sanctuary of the hillfort culture in Northwest Spain

by Marco García Quintela

en colaboración con MANUEL SANTOS ESTÉVEZ, “From Rock Carvings to Weltanschauung in A Ferradura: Sanctuary of the Hillfort Culture in NW Spain”, The Journal of Indoeuropean Studies (Washington), 32 nos 3/4, 2004, págs. 319-336.

The rock carving site known as ‘A Ferradura’ (the horseshoe) in Amoeiro (Ourense, NW Spain) situated in a local Iron... more The rock carving site known as ‘A Ferradura’ (the horseshoe) in Amoeiro (Ourense, NW Spain) situated in a local Iron Age archaeological context, has two main carved rocks. The iconographic features represented are interpreted in the light of comparable Gallic archaeology and Celtic religion. This explanation suggests that the site may be considered as an Iron Age sanctuary or meeting point, where some important elements of Celtic myth and ritual, such as royal inaugurations, inspired its sculptors.