Preface / Luther H. Martin, Jesper Sorensen
Introduction
Past minds : evolution, cognition and history / Luther H. Martin
Cognitive history and cultural epidemiology / Christophe Heintz, Konrad Lorenz
Minds and ancient civilizations
Technology and past minds : the case of Jewish niche construction / Gabriel Levy
Illuminatory of the wide earth, strong weapon of the gods, unbribable judge : intuitive ontologies and the use of divine epithets in Assyro-Bablylonian texts / Peter Westh
Cultural stability and the ideal landscape : the symbolism of trees and plants in Maya culture / Christian Prager
No time to philosophize : Norwegian oral tradition and the cognitive economics of belief / Dirk Johannsen
Roman minds
Prisons of the longue dure : the circulation and acceptance of prodigia in Roman antiquity / Anders Lisdorf
What might cognitive science contribute to our understanding of the roman cult of mithras? / Alef Chalupa
Do the multiple initiations of Lucius in Apuleius' metamorphoses falsify the ritual form hypothesis? / Douglass Gragg
Religion explained : Lucian and the cognitive study of religion / Ulrich Berner
Magic and mind in early Christianity / Istvan Czachesz
Conclusion
Beneath the surface of history / Donald Wiebe
Past minds : present historiography and cognitive science / Jesper Sorensen.
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