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

Körperschaft: European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting
Weitere Verfasser: Cyphers, Ann
Gheorghiu, Dragos
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010.
Umfang/Format: vi, 158 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: BAR international series ; 2138
Schlagworte:
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iDAI.gazetteer: Kraków-Bieżanów
Mittelamerika
Zadar
Africa
Asia
Europa
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 9 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.
  • 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