Ҫatalhöyük stands on a boundary between the wild and the domestic and all the archaeological categories these invoke – we’re not going to go there here! The following remarks concern spiritual worlds and the cosmological content of art forms found there. Reconstruction of the east and west mounds at Çatalhöyük (Çatalhöyük Research Project, 2018) In […]
Month: September 2018
Denisova Cave (Аю-Таш – Bear’s Rock)
Denisova Cave is indigenously named ‘Bear’s Rock’ after a local bear spirit. Other caves in the region, and elsewhere in Siberia, are similarly named. Given that hunting and shamanism have remained relatively unchanged in Siberia since the Palaeolithic, this nomenclature could be older than it might otherwise appear. I visited Denisova Cave in early May […]