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The body on display: Exploring the role and use of figurines in early Anglo-Saxon England
Journal of Social Archaeology, 2013 This article examines the significance and social context of early Anglo-Saxon figurines. Dating to the seventh century AD, these objects are three-dimensional metallic sculptures of the human form, between 30 and 50mm in length, and only 12 are known ...
Brundle, L.
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REASSESSING ANTHROPOMORPHIC METAL FIGURINES OF ALACAHÖYÜK, ANATOLIA
Near Eastern Archaeology, 2013Alacahoyuk is one of the few Early Bronze Age settlements in Anatolia with an obvious social hierarchy.
Yalcin, Uensal, Yalcin, Hatice Gönül
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Newe Yam: Anthropomorphic Figurine
Hadashot Arkheologiyot - Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 2015In March 2004, during an underwater rescue survey carried out at the submerged Neolithic site at Newe Yam (Permit No. A-4076; map ref. 193597/731287), an anthropomorphic figurine was found. The survey, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Haifa University, was directed
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Anthropomorphic figurines in Ferghana burials
Antiquity, 1990Ferghana, lying between the republics of Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Kirghizia, was famous in antiquity for its horses. Its Iron Age archaeology was brought to the attention of western audiences in Gorbunova's The culture of ancient Ferghana of 1986 (BAR S281). Here we are presented with a fascinating ethnoarchaeological study of a mid-first millennium
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A Study Of Anthropomorphic Figurines In The Neolithic Of Southwest Asia And Southeastern Europe
, 2013 Anthropomorphic figurines resemble people, very often the people who created them. Thus, these figurines stand to provide insight into their cultures perhaps from the perspective of the original members of the culture.
Feagans, Carl T.
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The Sphere-Bearing Anthropomorphic Figurines of Amathus
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1997A number of female figurines from the Cypro-Archaic tombs of Amathus have been identified as frame-drum players on the basis of the round objects they hold. However, a close examination of these figurines reveals that several of them carry spheres instead offrame drums.
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Anthropomorphic figurines from the north Caucasus
Antiquity, 1994A report on human representations in cast bronze and terracotta from a Late Bronze Age cemetery near Grozni in the Checken region of the northwest Caucasus.
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