Archaeology has not yet provided us with the proper
tools and the right means for reading the minds of our
prehistoric ancestors from the material evidence they
left us. When and if such means are ever made available,
we may rest assured they will be the product of science
and technology rather than of archaeology itself.
TiII then such a scenario is bound to remain in the realm
of wishful thinking and science fiction. With our feet
planted firmly in the ground the most we can hope to
do, in the meantime, in the field of religious thought, is
to try to reconstruct, by using that same material evidence.
the rituals through which our ancestors might
have expressed their beliefs in the supernatural.peer-reviewe
