Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology of Mother Earth sites and sanctuaries through the ages : rethinking symbols and images, art and artefacts from history and prehistory / edited by G. Terence Meaden.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Meaden, George Terence.

Description

i, 132 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 2389

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 2389.

Subject

• Mother goddesses
• Megalithic monuments
• Mother goddesses in art
• Earth (Planet) > Mythology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / G. Terence Meaden -- Mythical representations of 'Mother Earth' in pictorial media / Nikos Chausidis -- Perceptions of the landscape: at the palaeolithic sites Potočka zijalka and Divje babe I, Slovenia / Boštjan Odar -- Sacred sites and symbolism in the Neolithic landscape of Barbagia Di Seulo, central Sardinia / M. Giuseppina Gradoli and G. Terence Meaden -- Neolithic art and artefacts in caves near Seulo in Central Sardinia: 'Grutta 1 De Longu Fresu' / M. Giuseppina Gradoli and G. Terence Meaden -- Prehistoric occupation and use of a cave near Seulo in central Sardinia: 'The oval room' at 'Is Janas' / M. Giuseppina Gradoli and G. Terence Meaden -- The neolithic monument of Newgrange in Ireland: a cosmic womb? / Kate Prendergast -- Proto-Sardinia iconography and ideology of the cult of the Mother Goddess / Giovanni Ugas -- The five megaliths of the Avebury Cove / G. Terence Meaden -- Testing Stonehenge experimentally using a replica full-size altar stone positioned at the focus of the monument / G. Terence Meaden -- Towards the interpretation of Neolithic corporeality: committing 'Mothers' to Earth / Goce Naumov -- "The Bee Goddess": another form of a great female divinity? / Angeliki Liveri -- A case of prehistoric incubatio: the cult site of Civitaluparella, Chieti, Italy / Tomaso Di Fraia -- The Mother Goddess in the monuments and rituals at the "Dausdava" Getic religious centre: Thracian remains and modern relicts / Diana Gergova -- Medieval simulacra of the Mother Earth in the Christian traditions / Orhideja Zorova -- Sontes called Baba as a continuous symbol of the female divine principle: folklore, mythology and archaeology / Katya Hrobat -- Dust of the ancestors: the essence of being and the divinity of the Earth / Roberta Robins Dods -- Earth and sacredness in the contemporary world: a study case / Dragos Gheorghiu -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781407309811
• 1407309811

LCCN

2012494250

OCLC

• ocn802322379
• SCSB-1653198

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library