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sanctuaries in the Roman provinces of North West












A consideration in the light of neuroscientific and evolutionary theories.

The habilitation of the Mainz archaeologist Peter Main is now available in pdf and epub Grée Mahé e-publishing.

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 use, as this one in the North West 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 being constantly 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 used: theories, therefore, carried the revolutionary findings of neuroscience in recent years been discussed increasingly in the natural and social sciences.

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Following introduction of the author

be 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 science - is increasingly subjected to human culture is considered in all its facets as the same laws, as 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 that tensions arise if the question of the meaning behind all reality no more than unanswerable, but considered wrong question is (1): Seen Constructivist have meaning and sense question a construct of our brain, outside of it they are in a for us, not objectively observable, only ( again subjective) as bitter cold, clear 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, can also be long-gone cultures sensitivities much easier are spoken, than that of 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 derived mainly from the field of natural sciences, applied explicitly 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 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 enjoy in the division of duty and choice at the Institute of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Mainz. 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
file sizes: epub: 15 MB, pdf: 13MB
Price: 24,90 € including VAT
ePub ISBN 13: 978-3 -942593-00-7
PDF ISBN 13: 978-3-942593-01-4

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