Subhadra Das (UCL, UK)

Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool, UK)

James Morris (Bournemouth University; morrisj@bmth.ac.uk) and Clare Randall (Bournemouth University; crandall@bmth.ac.uk)

As Hodder (1992, 223) rightly pointed out, archaeologists have at times used the term ritual for two closely connected reasons, what is observed is non-functional and is not understood. It could be argued that archaeologists still use these criteria to define ritual deposits and it is still a much used explanation.

Andy Seaman (Cardiff University; seamanap@cardiff.ac.uk)

This session will build upon the session entitled 'Finding Faith in the Past' that was held at X-TAG in 2006. One of the themes to emerge from that session was a concern that the archaeology of religion cannot be confined to site-specific studies. It was argued that if we are to gain a contextual understanding of religious experience in the past then we must explore the ways in which the sacred was situated within the landscape.