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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phyletic Seriation of Experimentally Produced Anthropomorphic Figurines: An Exercise in Morphometric Analysis

open access: yes, 2020
The 26th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting (Networking), Budapest, Hungary, 26-30.
Radinović, Mihailo, Porčić, Marko
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 217-239, March 2025.
Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
wiley   +1 more source

Everything Was Better in the Good Old Days: On the End of the LBK and the Emergence of Lengyel Culture Figurines

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology
The beginning of the 5th millennium cal BC saw profound changes, with the disintegration of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) into smaller post-LBK cultural phenomena.
Valeska Becker   +3 more
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Consulting the things of the spirits: Evidencing unseen presences in missionary collections

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
Abstract Contributing to current efforts to grapple with museums' colonial legacies, this article takes the question of evidence as an entry point to unlock the multi‐layered make‐up of African spiritual artifacts in missionary collections. Focussing on Dutch and German missionary collections of legbawo and dzokawo from the Ewe region in Ghana and Togo,
Marleen de Witte, Birgit Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropomorphic figurines from burial contexts in Varna, Kodjadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI and Krivodol–Sălcuţa–Bubani cultures

open access: yesБългарско е-Списание за Археология, 2020
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
doaj  

Material expertise: The case of the craft entrepreneur Lucie Rie

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 686-712, December 2024.
Abstract Research Summary By following the historical case of the world‐renowned potter Luce Rie, we study the relationships between the accrual of material expertise, entrepreneurial actions, and successful craft venture outcomes. Drawing from Sennett's material consciousness framework and Fisher's resource‐based propositions of effective ...
Robin Holt, Rene Wiedner
wiley   +1 more source

Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
wiley   +1 more source

Neolithic anthropocentrism: the principles of imagery and symbolic manifestation of corporeality in the Balkans

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2010
The body in the Neolithic was used as adequate symbolic medium which on the one hand strengthened the crucial features of individuals, while on the other was capable to explicate the essential function of particular objects and constructions.
Goce Naumov
doaj   +1 more source

Symbolic interactionism of the Malta’s anthropomorphic paleolithic figurines

open access: yesИскусство Евразии, 2018
«Классическая коллекция» сибирского палеолитического искусства, полученная в результате раскопок М. М. Герасимова в 1928 – 1958гг. ключевого археологического памятника Южной Сибири – Мальты – представлена более чем 800 изделиями из бивня, рога, поделочного камня, датируется в пределах 19000 – 23000 лет назад [6].
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