ABSTRACT
Contemporary approaches to the archaeology of religion are equally varied and again only a selection can be considered here. These differ according to which chronological period or geographical area is being studied, frequently with little crossover: cognitive processualism in researching the upper palaeolithic, or post-processual-linked phenomenology applied to the neolithic. This also certainly seems to be true of the religious ‘forms’ allowed for in European prehistory, where the obsession with classification critiqued previously means that we have bounded entities proposed for each chronological period.
