Yes, I agree (please see above http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=25851&message=301497 ;-)

>These are basic human activities for whatever age. And when we put aside the magic and start to >concentrate on the meaning it all begins to make a bit more sense.

>>I see what you're getting at there, but religiosity and magico-phenomenalistic thoughts are also basic human activities (though they don't necessarily make much sense even to those who indulge in them). So maybe we should endeavour to factor them into attempts to reconstruct the world view of prehistoric societies.<<

Did prehistoric societies have the same division of thought that we have today, the scientific factual schol of thought versus the more subjective school of thought, or could they have amalgamated both in a more harmonious way that we find difficult if not impossible to perceive from our modern viewpoint which seems to be either end of a wide scale with no middle ground.

Rune