What did Ice Age people do in deep caves?
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The Ice Age people deposited their dead in caves as they felt it was supernatural, touch the spirit world either directly or means of offering and felt to be places of power. It reveals it is the longest lasting religion in the history of the world where the Ice Age people went underground repeatedly over more than 20 millennia to produce art, to perform ceremonies and to bury their dead.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2005
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The world of ancient ancestors: Australian Aboriginal caves and other realms within rocks
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A brief overview of the spiritual and ancestral beings who have abodes in the rocks and caves in Australia is given that are familiar to Kuwinjku, Gagudju, Gundjeibmi and other north Australian people. However, in Australia there are many stories about spirits associated with caves and worlds within rocks, encounters with spirits and the nature of inner and underworlds.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2005
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Archaeological caving in Croatia: The Illyrian rituals of Nakovana cave
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The Nakovana cave on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast that overlooks the Adriatic Sea was one rare discovery in archaeology and unique in southeast Europe. Illyrians did not write anything about themselves, hence Nakovana is a unique insider's view of their spiritual world during the final centuries of their incorporation into the Mediterranean world-system.
Publication Name: Expedition
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0014-4738
Year: 2005
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