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Katherine Spielmann: Crafting the Sacred

Shallit Lecture given at BYU on February 4, 2007. For millennia, peoples widely separated in time and place devoted considerable labor to enclosing and elaborating communal ritual spaces, and to producing objects for ritual consumption in these spaces. These ritual places and objects in fact often dominate the archaeological record for such societies. Thus far, researchers have primarily focused either on the ideological or the economic aspects of communal ritual production. In this paper Professor Spielmann uses two archaeological case studies (Ohio Hopewell earthworks and British Neolithic causewayed enclosures), and references relevant ethnographic data, to explore the sociality of the organization of production of ritual spaces and paraphernalia in small scale societies.