ABSTRACT
Although potentially a vast topic, the archaeology of religion is in fact substantially neglected as regards the provision of a convenient and accessible introductory text, and this volume aims to redress this. Nevertheless, pretensions are not entertained here that what is provided is the definitive statement on the relationship between archaeology and religion, and that subsequently the archaeology of religion will be adequately theorised; it will not be. For in stating this it should be accordingly noted that archaeological approaches to religion have been remarkably naïve and it has frequently been thought of as a relatively simple area of investigation. It is not, as it is comprised of the residue associated almost wholly with people’s beliefs, both individual and collective, and thus it is in fact remarkably complex.
