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FINGERPRINTS ON FIGURINES FROM THONIS‐HERACLEION
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 399-418, November 2024.Summary This paper studies ancient fingerprints to produce an estimate of the age and sex of the makers of several terracotta figurines found at Thonis‐Heracleion in Egypt, dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is only the second study of its kind to discuss the use of ancient fingerprint impressions from Ancient ...
Leonie Hoff
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 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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A FAIENCE HEAD OF A BEARDED MALE FROM TEL ABEL BETH MAACAH: ICONOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 373-398, November 2024.Summary A faience head depicting a bearded male was unearthed in a ninth‐century BC context at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, located on the modern Israel‐Lebanese border. During the Iron Age, the site was at the interface between the kingdoms of Israel and Aram‐Damascus and the Phoenician city‐states of Tyre and Sidon.
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Tyragetia, 2015 The article represents the publication of the complete collection of anthropomorphic figurines of Cucuteni A - Tripolye B1 stage from the settlement of Duruitoarea Veche I (Rîşcani District, Republic of Moldova).
Stanislav Ţerna, Mariana Vasilache
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Tell communities and wetlands in Neolithic Pelagonia, Republic of Macedonia
Documenta Praehistorica, 2016 Pelagonia is the biggest valley in the Republic of Macedonia, positioned in its mountainous southwestern area. It was first inhabited around 6000 BC by agricultural societies, which established the tell settlements in the region.
Goce Naumov
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Documenta PraehistoricaThis article examines the sole anthropomorphic representation associated with the sub-Neolithic Buh-Dniester culture (BDC). It is a conical marl artefact with schematic facial features, perforation, and engraved decoration.
Dmytro Haskevych
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2020 Figural representations from the Eneolithic period in the south-east Europe are not very common, especially in comparison with the Neolithic period, and they are also seldom discussed in the archaeological literature. In the Early Eneolithic Bubanj-Hum I
Mitrović, J., Vitezović, S.
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Глинени антропоморфни фигурки от неолитното селище до гр. Върбица, област Шумен
Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2016 The paper discusses ten anthropomorphic figurines that were found during the archaeological investigation of a multilayer site near the town of Varbitsa in 2015 (fig.1). They were found in stratigraphic layers associated with phases Karanovo II-III (cat.
Svetlana Venelinova, Valeri Grigorov
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За един специфичен тип къснонеолитни мъжки антропоморфни фигури от долината на Струма
Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2016 A specific type of standing male anthropomorphic figurine appears in the Late Neolithic of the Struma valley. The figurines are small and schematically rendered. The current paper discusses examples found in Bersin (n=1), Mursalevo (Gerena locality, n=3)
Vesselina Vandova
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Archéopages, 2008 The concept of a Neolithic “mother-goddess” cult, which saw the light of day in evolutionist writings of the 19th century, was adopted by archaeology and is much debated even today.
Jean Guilaine
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