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A number of unusual anthropomorphic figurines featuring hunched backs and conical protrusions on their chests have been unearthed in several settlements that belong to the area of the Kodjadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI culture.
Vanya Stavreva
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The paper presents two types of small artefacts: anthropomorphic figurines and miniature beads, all of which were acquired during the excavations of the Early Neolithic settlement at Ilindentsi during 2011–2018.
Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow +2 more
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Early and middle Neolithic figurines – the migration of religious belief
In Linear Pottery Culture, two types of anthropomorphic figurines are distinguishable: Type 1 figurines have a columnar body, without legs or hips, while Type 2 figurines show more detail in their body shape.
Valeska Becker
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: Figurines of the early Bronze Age from burial mounds, including ones of the Serezliivka type, have specific morphological and stylistic features, which do not allow them to be associated with Trypillia or Usatovo cultures.
Natalia Burdo
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Terracotta Figurines from the Iron IIA Temple at Moza, Judah
Four terracotta figurines, of which two are anthropomorphic and two are zoomorphic, were found within an assemblage of cult artifacts lying on the packed earth floor of an Iron IIA temple courtyard unearthed in the course of the renewed excavations at ...
Shua Kisilevitz
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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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This study examines the use of anthropomorphic figurines in burial practices of the Late Eneolithic Varna, KGKVI and KSB cultures. It contains the presentation and analysis of data on their deposition in necropolises, which show that they occurred ...
Vanya Stavreva
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The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third-Millennium-BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa [PDF]
This book is a critical examination of representations of the body in the Indus civilization, focusing on the anthropomorphic terracotta figurines from Harappa and using more flexible notions of sex, gender, and sexuality to explore Indus conceptions of ...
Sharri Clark
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The 26th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting (Networking), Budapest, Hungary, 26-30.
Radinović, Mihailo, Porčić, Marko
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Patayan Anthropomorphic Figurines from an Orange County Site [PDF]
The primary purpose of this study is to describe these specimens and discuss their cultural associations, temporal placement, and the possible agents and routes of trade for the exotic effigies. Set against the near absence of Late Prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines from elsewhere in Orange County, these dozen artifacts, as well as figurines of the ...
Koerper, Henry C, Hedges, Ken
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