Next week we're going to Turkey. First, to Catalhoyuk - one of the earliest locations where humans settled in large numbers, involving domestication of plants and animals. There will be seminars at the site on the role of "religion" and "spirituality" in the neolithic.
I have a chapter on this theme in an upcoming book edited by Ian Hodder with Cambridge University Press. Here is an announcement for the book.
Then we are going to Gobekli Tepe, one of the oldest (maybe the oldest?) place of collective human worship.
I've been reading David Lewis-William's Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion, and hope to do an article (or chapter, or book) on this theme eventually too.
