Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- The archaeology of shamanism: Cognition, cosmology and world-view --Chapter One -- AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALTERED STATES: SHAMANISM AND MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES 3 Neil S.Price -- Chapter Two -- SOUTHERN AFRICAN SHAMANISTIC ROCK ART IN ITS SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE CONTEXTS 17 J.D.Lewis-Williams --PART TWO -- Siberia and Central Asia: The 'cradle of shamanism' --Chapter Three -- ROCK ART AND THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SIBERIAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN SHAMANISM 43 Ekaterina Devlet -- Chapter Four -- SHAMANS, HEROES AND ANCESTORS IN THE BRONZE CASTINGS OF WESTERN SIBERIA, 56 Natalia Fedorova -- Chapter Five -- SUN GODS OR SHAMANS? INTERPRETING THE 'SOLAR-HEADED' PETROGLYPHS OF CENTRAL ASIA 65 Andrzej Rozwadowski -- Chapter Six -- THE MATERIALITY OF SHAMANISM AS A 'WORLD-VIEW': PRAXIS, ARTEFACTS AND LANDSCAPE 87 Peter Jordan -- Chapter Seven -- THE MEDIUM OF THE MESSAGE: SHAMANISM AS LOCALISED PRACTICE IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYAS 105 Damian Walter --PART THREE North America and the North Atlantic -- Chapter Eight -- THE GENDERED PEOPLING OF NORTH AMERICA: ADDRESSING THE ANTIQUITY OF SYSTEMS OF MULTIPLE GENDERS 123 Sandra E.Hollimon -- Chapter Nine -- SHAMANISM AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF PALAEO-ESKIMO ART 135 -- Patricia D.Sutherland -- Chapter Ten -- SOCIAL BONDING AND SHAMANISM AMONG LATE DORSET GROUPS IN HIGH ARCTIC GREENLAND 146 -- Hans Christian Gullov and Martin Appelt --PART FOUR Northern Europe -- Chapter Eleven -- SPECIAL OBJECTS - SPECIAL CREATURES: SHAMANISTIC IMAGERY AND THE AURIGNACIAN ART OF SOUTH-WEST GERMANY 165 Thomas A.Dowson and Martin Porr -- Chapter Twelve -- THE SOUNDS OF TRANSFORMATION: ACOUSTICS, MONUMENTS AND RITUAL IN THE BRITISH NEOLITHIC 178 Aaron Watson -- Chapter Thirteen -- AN IDEOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION: CREMATION RITES AND ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 193 Howard Williams -- Chapter Fourteen -- WAKING ANCESTOR SPIRITS: NEO-SHAMANIC ENGAGEMENTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY 213 Robert J.Wallis --Index 231.