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Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Figurines of Tall Jalul from 1992 to 2007

2023
Problem. The seasons at Tall Jalul conducted between 1992-2007 yielded 77 terracotta fragments of objects commonly called figurines. These figurine fragments are styled after humans and animals. This present study has two major objectives: (1) to catalog the 77 exemplars of various types found at Tall Jalul and (2) to analyze that catalog with respect ...
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Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan

2017
This chapter charts the trajectory of change of Jomon period clay anthropomorphic figurines in the Japanese archipelago. The earliest specimens embodied the perception of the body and female bodily experiences rather than accurately representing the body itself. Emphasis gradually shifted from the material embodiment of unmediated bodily perception and
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Bronze Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Sacrificial Pits of Sanxingdui

Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology
This work gives a description of bronze figurines from the second sacrificial pit of Sanxingdui and their classification according to the affinity to different categories of ritual bronzes whose details they initially were. The classification helped to attribute small anthropomorphic images to one of the, earlier isolated by the author, stages of the ...
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Somatic Shape, Artifact Terminology, and the Racialization of Anthropomorphic Figurines

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Anthropomorphic figurines from a variety of ancient cultures are described in academic and public-facing discourse as being ‘steatopygous’. Such figurines are interpreted as displaying ‘steatopygia’, an accumulation of fatty tissue in the hips, thighs, and/or buttocks.
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Clay Anthropomorphic Figurines of the 'Nuragic' Sardinia

2012
Analisi iconografica, iconologica e crono-tipolgicadi alcune statuette antropomorfe eminentemente fittili rinvenute in ...
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Figurines anthropomorphes féminines préhistoriques de l’archipel maltais

Il contributo offre una panoramica critica sulle produzioni di figurine antropomorfe nell'Arcipelago maltese durante la preistoria ...
Recchia G., Cazzella A.
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