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Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos

Author : Prudence M. Rice
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607328895
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos written by Prudence M. Rice and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines—hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic fragments, animal figures, and musical instruments such as whistles and ocarinas—Prudence M. Rice engages with a broad swath of theory and comparative data on Maya ritual practice. Presenting original data, Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos offers insight into the synchronous appearance of fired-clay figurines with the emergence of societal complexity in and beyond Mesoamerica. Rice situates these Preclassic Maya figurines in the broader context of Mesoamerican human figural representation, identifies possible connections between anthropomorphic figurine heads and the origins of calendrics and other writing in Mesoamerica, and examines the role of anthropomorphic figurines and zoomorphic musical instruments in Preclassic Maya ritual. The volume shows how community rituals involving the figurines helped to mitigate the uncertainties of societal transitions, including the beginnings of settled agricultural life, the emergence of social differentiation and inequalities, and the centralization of political power and decision-making in the Petén lowlands. Literature on Maya ritual, cosmology, and specialized artifacts has traditionally focused on the Classic period, with little research centering on the very beginnings of Maya sociopolitical organization and ideological beliefs in the Middle Preclassic. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos is a welcome contribution to the understanding of the earliest Maya and will be significant to Mayanists and Mesoamericanists as well as nonspecialists with interest in these early figurines

The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199675619
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines written by Timothy Insoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.

Chalcolithic Anthropomorphic Figurines from Ilgynly-depe, Southern Turkmenistan

Author : Natalia F. Solovyova
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Chalcolithic Anthropomorphic Figurines from Ilgynly-depe, Southern Turkmenistan by : Natalia F. Solovyova

Download or read book Chalcolithic Anthropomorphic Figurines from Ilgynly-depe, Southern Turkmenistan written by Natalia F. Solovyova and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chalcolithic site of Ilgynly-depe was occupied c.5000-3000 BC and consisted of a prosperous farming community with domestic dwellings that were richly decorated and highly ritualised. This piece of research focuses on more than 500 anthropomorphic figurines found during fourteen seasons of excavations at the site.

Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines

Author : Erin Darby
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161524929
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines written by Erin Darby and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judean Pillar Figurines regularly appear in discussions about Israelite religion, monotheism, and female practice. Erin Darby uses Near Eastern texts, iconography, the Hebrew Bible, and the archeology of Jerusalem to explore figurine function, the gender of figurine users, and the relationship between Judean figurines and the Assyrian Empire"--Back cover.

The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191663107
Total Pages : 1123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines written by Timothy Insoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 1123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.

Anthropomorphic Figurines of Predynastic Egypt and Neolithic Crete with Comparative Material from the Prehistoric Near East and Mainland Greece

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Author : Peter J. Ucko
Publisher : Szmidla
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropomorphic Figurines of Predynastic Egypt and Neolithic Crete with Comparative Material from the Prehistoric Near East and Mainland Greece written by Peter J. Ucko and published by Szmidla. This book was released on 1968 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tell Arbid I. Clay Figurines

Author : Maciej Makowski
Publisher : Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
ISBN 13 : 8394800483
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Tell Arbid I. Clay Figurines written by Maciej Makowski and published by Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk. This book was released on 2016 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab

Author : P. M. Michele Daviau
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785707086
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab by : P. M. Michele Daviau

Download or read book A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab written by P. M. Michele Daviau and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results of recent excavations at a small, isolated but very important Iron Age shrine in Moab, southern Palestine.

Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults

Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406907
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults by : Mieke Prent

Download or read book Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults written by Mieke Prent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the history of their use and their religious and social functions, offering new insights into the period as a whole. Ancient Crete is known as an island whose religion displays a strong continuity with ‘Minoan’ traditions. The period of 1200–600 BC in general, however, is considered as one of profound socio-political and cultural change. This study explores the idea of ‘continuity’ by detailing the different processes and mechanisms involved in the maintenance of older cult traditions and provides balance by placing the observed changes in cult customs and the use of sanctuaries in the broader context of societal change.

Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age

Author : Sarah C. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009041266
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age written by Sarah C. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

Balkan Prehistory

Author : Douglass W. Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134607083
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Prehistory written by Douglass W. Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed for an archaeology of the Balkans and will be required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

Author : Rafał Borysławski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898546
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History written by Rafał Borysławski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literature, to disclose laughter’s manipulative potential in historical and literary narratives, to see it in the light of the concepts of carnivalesque and playfulness, to see it as a reflection of hysterical historicizing, to see its place in comedy, farce, grotesque and irony, and to see it against its broadly understood theoretical, philosophical and psychological aspects. The book will appeal chiefly to an academic readership, including students, historians, literary and cultural scholars, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists.

Archaeology and Women

Author : Sue Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315434113
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and Women written by Sue Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.

Archaeologies of the Middle East

Author : Susan Pollock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137231
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of the Middle East written by Susan Pollock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologies of the Middle East provides an innovative introduction to the archaeology of this fascinating region and a window on both its past and present. Written by some of the top archaeologists of the Middle East: scholars from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of interests and intellectual approaches Coverage spans 100,000 years: from the Paleolithic to Hellenistic times Explores the connections between modern-day politics and the social context of archaeological practice and various underutilized approaches to archaeological interpretation Designed for student use

Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019

Author : Daniel Eddisford
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789692318
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019 written by Daniel Eddisford and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanities studies on the Arabian Peninsular including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire.

The 2006 Season at Tall al-‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies

Author : Larry G. Herr
Publisher : PSU Department of English
ISBN 13 : 1646022106
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The 2006 Season at Tall al-‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies written by Larry G. Herr and published by PSU Department of English. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the tenth in a series of technical seasonal reports on the excavations of Tall al-ʿUmayri, Jordan, part of the Madaba Plains Project. It covers artifactual finds and related research from excavation fields active during the 2006 season: Field A, the western citadel with Early Iron Age domestic structures; Field B, the western defenses and northwestern domestic quarters showcasing a rare Late Bronze Age temple/palace complex; Field H, the southwestern acropolis boasting a Late Iron I courtyard sanctuary; and Field L, the southern edge with Iron I remains, limited Late Iron II architecture, and the now fully exposed area of a Late Hellenistic agricultural complex. This volume includes an important synthesis of the long-term data on repeating cycles of abatement and intensification of settlement population patterns, and the chapters are supplemented by an article on sherds with incised marks and another on coins found at ʿUmayri in 2006. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Robert D. Bates, David R. Berge, John W. Betlyon, Kent V. Bramlett, David C. Hopkins, and Gloria A. London.

Ebla and its Landscape

Author : Paolo Matthiae
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315429888
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Ebla and its Landscape written by Paolo Matthiae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of 17,000 tablets at the mid-third millennium BC site of Ebla in Syria has revolutionized the study of the ancient Near East. This is the first major English-language volume describing the multidisciplinary archaeological research at Ebla. Using an innovative regional landscape approach, the 29 contributions to this expansive volume examine Ebla in its regional context through lenses of archaeological, textual, archaeobiological, archaeometric, geomorphological, and remote sensing analysis. In doing so, they are able to provide us with a detailed picture of the constituent elements and trajectories of early state development at Ebla, essential to those studying the ancient Near East and to other archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and linguists. This work was made possible by an IDEAS grant from the European Research Council.