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{"title":"An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ Interpretation of Dreams","authors":"Jenny Wallensten","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2122355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2122355","url":null,"abstract":"Homeric tradition which localise solstitial concepts, including analysis of solar conditions and calendrical references in the far north, the land of the Hyperboreans. Some of those which frame diurnal solar activities emerge from discussions of the sun’s voyage in a cup, passage through the Pylian and other gates, and places visited by the Argonauts. This section cautiously extends the mythic model beyond the Greek tradition to the Middle East, invoking the solar voyages of Gilgamesh and Alexander. The references cited in this scholarly work are formidable, but although I was far less familiar with them than the author I was nonetheless able to cross the extraordinary cross-cultural bridge that Bilíc has built. Whether the sun races across the sky in a chariot, whether his daily course is limited seasonally or daily by mountains, islands, gates and thresholds, and whatever mythical lands are surrounded by an accessible world of the dead where the sun sleeps a while, the way you witness and tell the story of the sun’s journey depends precisely on where you are in the world.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83299279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biocultural approaches to sustainability: role of indigenous knowledge systems in biodiversity conservation of West Bengal, India","authors":"U. Sen, R. Bhakat","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2085527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2085527","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sacred groves are tracts of richly diverse virgin forest, protected for centuries by the local people for cultural and religious beliefs and taboos. They believe that the deities live in these groves and save the villagers from various calamities. In terms of biodiversity, history, and religious and ethnic heritage, sacred groves form an inextricable link between the present society and the past. Sacred groves are scattered throughout the world, and various cultures identify them in multiple ways that encode different rules for their protection. Depending on such assumption, this paper highlights the conservation and cultural values of the Santal community surrounding the sacred groves of Binpur II block under the Jhargram district in West Bengal. In addition to the conservation of 210 species of angiosperms, the study shows that these groves have specific direct and indirect socio-economic impacts.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86591577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography, and Astronomy in Ancient Greece","authors":"A. Aveni","doi":"10.1080/1751696x.2022.2122357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2022.2122357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77079744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mesolithic shadow play? Exploring the performative attributes of a zoomorphic wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) antler artefact from Finland","authors":"Marja Ahola, Katri Lassila","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2098047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2098047","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Throughout history, humans have told stories to one another. Although these stories have largely disappeared over the course of time, they have sometimes left material remains, for instance in the form of rock art. However, rock art might not be the only materialization of prehistoric storytelling practices. On the contrary, if made active again, other prehistoric artefacts might also bring past storytelling practices back to life. In this paper, we examine how storytelling might have taken place in Late Mesolithic Finland (c. 6800–5200 cal BCE). As a case study, we investigate a zoomorphic wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) antler artefact from southern Finland, the so-called ‘Lepaa artefact’, with multidisciplinary methods arising from the traditions of experimental archaeology, 3D technologies, and artistic research. As a result, we suggest that Mesolithic storytelling might have been entangled with ritual practices and accompanied by performances that resemble traditional shadow theatre.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88740315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How food fueled language, Part II: language genres, songs in the head, and the coevolution of cooking and language","authors":"Jake Young","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2103727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2103727","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines how cooking and language emerged and coevolved as drivers of human creativity. Through this dynamic coevolutionary process, shifts in diet affected demographics, which increased social and cognitive complexity, leading to new technological and social innovations, and eventually genetic changes. A work of interdisciplinary synthesis, this paper combines work from diverse fields including anthropology, cognitive archaeology, evolutionary syntax, genre studies, neuroscience, and paleoethnobotany. A key contribution from genres studies is that the emergence of language allowed for a proliferation of linguistic genres (referred to collectively as proto-poetry), and that earworms, or songs stuck in the head, are likely cognitive fossils of these first proto-poems that evolved to enhance working memory and recursive thought. The argument proposed here hinges on the beliefs that in order to better understand how language first arose, we need to ask what the first words were about, and that food was likely the subject around which language first gravitated. Language is a cultural tool that emerged from our interactions with our environment, and food is a very important aspect of that environment. This paper is part two of a two-part article.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72631650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies","authors":"Robert Weiner","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2122354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2122354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79989189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How food fueled language, Part I: human creativity and the coevolution of cooking and language","authors":"Jake Young","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2098811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2098811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Humans are unique in their creative abilities and this creativity likely arose as a result of self-domestication. Language use would have been a driver of early human self-domestication, and this paper examines how the controlled use of fire for cooking was an early driver in the development of language. Cooking allowed for greater caloric intake and a greater diversity of diet, contributing to larger hominin brain sizes and group sizes. These developments created new social constraints that were met by the emergence of language. Diets can impact neuroplasticity, enhancing divergent thinking and creativity. One potential source of such transformative foodstuffs were intoxicants, the use of which could have easily become ritualized and used as social and cognitive tools. Cooking and ritualization, as fundamentally hierarchically and temporally structured actions, are grounded in recursion, which is also a key aspect of language. Cooking, recursive, and symbolic thought coevolved, driving the development of language. This paper is part one of a two-part article.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89110594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England","authors":"E. White","doi":"10.1080/1751696x.2022.2122356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2022.2122356","url":null,"abstract":"Recent decades have seen growing scholarly interest in how the people of early medieval England interacted with the natural environment around them – with animals, trees, and water. Indeed, Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England is the second edited volume on the subject in recent years, following Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke’s 2017 publication Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World. This latest book arises from a 2015 colloquium at London’s Senate House, supplemented by work presented at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. The focus is very much on textual evidence. Michael Bintley dips into the appearances of water in the Old English poem Andreas, where it was used to convey a clear Christian message, while Jill Frederick discusses the Exeter Book Riddle 84, conventionally understood as alluding to water. Several contributors highlight the scarcity of early medieval evidence, as with Simon Trafford’s interesting summary of references to swimming and Elizabeth A. Alexander’s chapter on English perspectives on Jonah and the whale. Religious themes are repeatedly explored. Those interested in ritual engagements with the landscape will turn to Hooke’s examination of how ecclesiastical establishments saw their watery environments and by Carolyn Twomey’s analysis of baptism at English rivers. Art-historical approaches also make an appearance; when considering the Christian connotations of pearls, Meg Boulton turns to continental artworks and considers possible carvings of pearls on the Easby Cross. In contrast, archaeological evidence is largely overlooked, something likely to frustrate readers of Time and Mind. This is a disappointment, as previous edited volumes on similar themes – such as Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World and Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia – had pursued a broader interdisciplinary approach. When considering human relationships with water in the early Middle Ages, archaeology has much to offer. These caveats about disciplinary scope aside, this is a good selection of work on an admittedly niche subject matter – certainly a volume that anyone working on water in early medieval Europe will want to have access to.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72446677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Orion as a celestial representation of Wākea as determined from Kūkaniloko on O’ahu in the Hawaiian Islands","authors":"Martha H. Noyes","doi":"10.1080/1751696X.2022.2056502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2022.2056502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether in Hawaiʻi, Orion – one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky – represents Wākea, the best known cosmogonic male progenitor of Hawaiian cosmogony. Wākea, commonly referred to as Sky Father and the ‘wide expanse of the sky,’ is noted in the name for the celestial equator, Ke ala i ka piko o Wākea (the path to the navel/center of Wākea), with the star Mintaka of Orion’s Belt representing Wākea’s celestial piko.","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84679110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Magic, metallurgy and imagination in medieval Ireland: three studies","authors":"J. Harte","doi":"10.1080/1751696x.2022.2030986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2022.2030986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43900,"journal":{"name":"Time & Mind-The Journal of Archaeology Consciousness and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86949944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}