Symbols at ʻAin Ghazal

Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin : ex oriente, 2013.
Umfang/Format: Xvi, 364 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Schriftenreihe: ʻAin Ghazal excavation reports ; v. 3
Bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis.
Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Jordanien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The town of ʻAin Ghazal / Gary O. Rollefson and Zeiden A. Kafafi
  • Token finds at pre-pottery Neolithic ʻAin Ghazal : a formal and technological analysis / Harry Iceland
  • Tokens and writing : the cognitive development / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • Animal figurines : the ʻAin Ghazal zoomorphic assemblage / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • The human clay figurines and ancient Near Eastern magic : the human clay figurines collection / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • A stone metaphor of creation / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • Three plaster faces / Carol A. Grissom and Patricia S. Griffin
  • The plastered skulls / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • Statue cache 2 / Carol A. Grissom
  • ʻAin Ghazal "monumental" figures : a sylistic analysis / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • Murals and floor paintings at ʻAin Ghazal / Denise Schmandt-Besserat
  • Standing stones of the Neolithic village of ʻAin Ghazal / Zeidan A. Kafafi
  • Neolithic symbolism at ʻAin Ghazal : the archaeological assemblage / Denise Schmandt-Besserat.