Space and gestures, two fundamental issues in the history of ancient religions, represent crucial topics
for the study of ritual contexts. However, given the difficulty of understanding these categories and
the undeniable role (and continuous interweaving) of ritual practices, new interdisciplinary studies
are required. This paper proposes some considerations built on researches by De Certeau, Douglas
and Cardona in order to define a new research approach shared by historians of religions and
archaeologists alike. This approach is aimed at bypassing impervious definitions and formulating
new hypothesis in order to address the complexity of the relationship between space and gesture in
Ancient Mediterranean cultures.
