ABSTRACT
Talking about the origins of religion implies working from some overall picture of what religion is. Needless to say, this picture should not leave out any cardinal points, i.e. any of the most important elements of religion. For it is around the origins of these elements that the discussion will evolve. e present volume testies to the great advances that the cognitive science of religion (CSR) has made in dening such core elements of religious thought and practice. is chapter, however, oers a perspective from a neighbouring discipline, that of cognitive archaeology.
