Title:

Roots of Spirituality

Principal Investigator:

Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology
Emeritus Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Grantee:

University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK)

Description:

This grant supports an interdisciplinary research project on the emergence of the spiritual. The aim of the project is to investigate aspects of human behavior manifest in the archaeological record that give indications of the early occurrence and development of aspects of religious practices and belief. The grant supports a research fellow and several symposia, which include:

• Image and Imagination: Material Beginnings – The Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation
• Measuring the World and Beyond: The Archaeology of Early Quantification and Cosmology

Symposia papers will be published as McDonald Institute monographs.

Project web site:
http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/ spirituality.html