| Description |
404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Megalithic monuments & temples of Malta -- Sardinian 'giants' tombs' -- Balearic 'navetas' -- Almerian megalithic cults -- Armorican megaliths -- Avebury & 'the sanctuary' on Overton Hill -- Stonehenge -- Woodhenge -- Egyptian temples -- Al'Ubaid temples -- Temples of Assur -- Sanctuaries in Palestine & the Temple in Jerusalem -- Cultus in Jerusalem -- Indo-Iranian culture -- Indus civilization -- Hindu temples -- Shrine & temple cultus -- Rock-cut cave temples -- Greek temples -- Roman temples -- Christian basilicas & muslim mosques -- Roman catacombs -- Rome -- Ravenna -- Muslim mosques |
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The Palaeolithic cavern sanctuaries -- Decorated caves (La Pasiega ; Castillo ; Hornos de la Peña ; Altamira ; Font-de-Gaume ; Les Combarelles ; Lascaux ; Niaux ; Montespan ; Gargas ; Tuc d'Audoubert ; Les trois frères ; Pech-Merle) -- Rock shelters (La Grèze ; Cap Blanc ; Comarque ; Laussel ; Cogul ; Alpera ; Las Figuras) -- The cult of the caves and rock-shelters (Mimetic masked dance ; Seasonal fertility rites ; Cult of skulls ; Ceremonial interments) -- Neolithic and Bronze Age sanctuaries -- Pre-pottery shrines at Jericho -- Ossuaries & the cult of skulls -- Tholoi at Arpachiyah -- Khirokitia tholoi in Cyprus -- Cypriot necropolis at Vounous-Bellabais -- Anatolian shrines at Beycesultan -- Mesara circular tombs -- Mochlos tombs -- Hagia Triada shrine & sarcophagus -- Temple tomb at Knossos -- Gournia shrine -- Minoan-Mycenaean shrines -- Mountain cave-sanctuaries -- Megalithic tombs & temples in Sicily |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [381]-388 |
| Subject |
Shrines.
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| LC no. |
65010910 |
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