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Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic miniature figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America : morphology, materiality, technology, function and context

Title: Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic miniature figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America : morphology, materiality, technology, function and context / edited by Dragos Gheorghiu, Ann Cyphers.
Publication: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010.

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Description

vi, 158 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 2138

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 2138.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

"The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and Zadar (2007)."--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Small worlds / Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers -- Beyond 'Venus' figurines: technical production and social practice in Pavlovian portable art / Rebecca A. Farbstein -- Dissentions: magnitude, usability and the oddness of Neolithic figures / Christina Marangou -- Neolithic ceramic figurines in the shape of a woman-house from the Republic of Macedonia / Nikos Chausidis -- Cult artifacts from the neolithic and chalcolithic settlement of Leceia, Oeiras, Portugal / João Luís Cardoso -- The 'god-dolly' wooden figurine from the Somerset levels, Britain: the context, the place and its meaning / Clive Jonathon Bond -- Anthropomorphic antler sculptures in Abora neolithic settlement (Lake Lubāns wetland, Latvia) / Ilze Biruta Loze -- Ritual technology: an experimental approach to cucuteni-tripolye chalcolithic figurines / Dragos Gheorghiu -- Problems of identity for Mycenaean figurines / Andrea Vianello -- Go figure! Creating intertwined worlds in the Scandinavian late Iron Age (AD 550-1050) / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson -- A cognitive approach to variety in the facial and bodily features of prehistoric Japanese figurines / Naoko Matsumoto and Hideaki Kawabata -- Fragmentation practices in central Japan: middle Jōmon clay figurines at Shakadō / Ilona Bausch -- Awakening the symbolic calendar: animal figurines and the conceptualisation of the natural world in the Jomon of northern Japan / Liliana Janik -- Can clues from Egypt's dynastic period shed light on its predynastic figurines? / Aloisia de Trafford -- Artificial cranial vault modification in Olmec figurines: identity, ancestry and politics in early Mesoamerica / Ann Cyphers -- The solid terracotta and stone figurines from central region of the Bolaños Canyon in the state of Jalisco, Mexico / Ma. Teresa Cabrero G. -- Figurines in the heart of the Aztec Empire / Cynthia L. Otis Charlton and Thomas H. Charlton.

ISBN

9781407306797
1407306790

LCCN

2010534497

OCLC

ocn663437231
663437231
SCSB-1566895

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library