Settling down with anthropomorphic clay figurines in eastern North America [PDF]
Frontiers in Human DynamicsIndigenous peoples have occupied eastern North America for over 10,000 years; yet the earliest anthropomorphic figurines were only manufactured in the past several thousand years.
G Logan Miller
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Developing an Inclusive Framework for Research on Minoan Peak Sanctuary Anthropomorphic Figurines [PDF]
Les Carnets De L’ACoSt, 2014 Currently under completion as a doctoral thesis (University of Kent), this study investigates the benefits of applying a multifaceted and holistic framework to research on Minoan peak sanctuary anthropomorphic figurines. Stemming from an interest in these artefacts’ material properties it seeks to reconcile some too frequently divided or opposed ...
Céline Murphy
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Anthropomorphic figurines from Vinča excavations 1998–2009
Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 The paper presents figurines from excavations at Vinča 1998–2000 dated to the very end of the Late Neolithic. Along with a presentation and analysis of these objects, the paper addresses questions of the development of sculpture in Vinča, and matters of ...
Nenad Tasić
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Small anthropomorphic figurines in clay at Ģipka Neolithic settlements
Documenta Praehistorica, 2005 Miniature Neolithic figurines in clay are a special topic of research. This especially concerns areas where their representation has so far been poor. While carrying out archaeological excavations in Northern Kurzeme, the north-west coastal dune zone of ...
Ilze Biruta Loze
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Thinking through and about anthropomorphic figurines. A cognitive and neuroarchaeological approach to the study of peak sanctuary practices [PDF]
Les Carnets De L’ACoStOne of the defining characteristics of Cretan peak sanctuaries are the clay anthropomorphic figurines, which are observable in large quantities on nearly all such sites, and which are seldom associated with other contexts.
Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou
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The Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal'ta: a unique source for the study of childhood archaeology [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 As a gendered perspective has emerged in wider society over the past 50 or so years, a greater interest in gender- and age-related research in science has similarly occurred, including for the study of the past (archaeology) and the present (ethnology ...
Liudmila Lbova
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Reverse engineering of ceramic anthropomorphic figurines from the Tumaco archaeological tradition in southwest Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Traditional studies of archaeological ceramics in Colombia have been largely based on visual and stylistic analyses. Here we introduce frameworks and concepts of reverse engineering as a complementary strategy to develop hypotheses about ceramic ...
Nohora Alba Bustamante +2 more
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012 The biographical approach to material culture and the hypothesis of deliberate fragmentation of anthropomorphic figurines are used in this paper to deduce a hypothesis that there should be an association between particular fragmentation categories and ...
Marko Porčić
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Stone Age anthropomorphic flat figurines from Tamula, Estonia
Acta Academiae Artium VilnensisThis article presents for the first time the full collection of anthropomorphic figurines found at Tamula, dating from the 4th to 3rd millennium BC.
Tõnno Jonuks +3 more
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Domination of Women? Gender Representation in the Corpus of Late Neolithic Anthropomorphic Figurines
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021 Since the inception of the discipline of archaeology, figurines have been considered as the basis for research into the praehistoric social order and religious ideas.
Jasna Vuković
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