Under a Fig Tree

Under a Fig Tree

On our essential cooperative nature

(Part 7) Encounters with the Deep Past

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Gabriela Gutierrez
Aug 24, 2025
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Encounters with the Deep Past is an archive and resource for anyone interested in the origins of religious experience, the fabulous animistic cosmologies of our earliest ancestors, academic evidence for prehistoric religious and ritual behaviour, the exploration and importance of other ways of knowing (besides—but not instead of!—academia), and a voyage into what some researchers refer to as the world’s oldest religion: animism.

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Figurine head expressing joy, Vinča, Serbia, 5100 - 4800 BCE. © Gabriela Gutierrez
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