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The Death of the Figurine: Reflections on an Abrahamic Abstention
Figurines, 2020This chapter explores an evidential absence, arising from a striking archaeological fact. In all the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, including Egypt and north Africa, of the near East at least as far as India, both prehistoric and historic, from ...
J. Elsner
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Tel Aviv
The only figurative object found in the 1980 salvage excavations at Qlaʿ is a tiny figurine in the shape of a lion, summarily carved in black basalt stone.
Irit Ziffer
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The only figurative object found in the 1980 salvage excavations at Qlaʿ is a tiny figurine in the shape of a lion, summarily carved in black basalt stone.
Irit Ziffer
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Facial Cleft in a Mayan Figurine.
The Journal of craniofacial surgery (Print), 2019FIGURE 1. Mayan figurine from Lunardi Collection. O interesting reports on facial deformities in pre-Columbian populations, based on the analysis of funeral and ceremonial artifacts.
Alessandro Bolis, M. Belingheri, M. Riva
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The Khirbet Kerak Ware figurine: a new component in the Kura-Araxes cultural assemblage
Levant, 2019Recent excavations of Khirbet Kerak Ware contexts at the type site of Khirbet el-Kerak/Tel Bet Yerah and re-investigation of earlier finds from this site have permitted the technological and typological identification of a distinct category of zoomorphic
Nadeshda B. Knudsen, R. Greenberg
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Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2018
During a reorganization of the collections at Kent State University (KSU), a fired-clay human figurine was discovered. Beyond the fact that KSU obtained the specimen from a collector, and the alleged origin was the Ohio Hopewell site of Hopeton ...
Michelle R. Bebber +3 more
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During a reorganization of the collections at Kent State University (KSU), a fired-clay human figurine was discovered. Beyond the fact that KSU obtained the specimen from a collector, and the alleged origin was the Ohio Hopewell site of Hopeton ...
Michelle R. Bebber +3 more
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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
E. Galili, B. Rosen, L. Kolska-Horwitz
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Anthropos, 2021
Following studies that uncovered an apotropaic meaning and function of Venus figurines, for which a basis was found in bodily processes, this article examines apotropaic iconography from the end of the Late Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic in northern Europe.
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Following studies that uncovered an apotropaic meaning and function of Venus figurines, for which a basis was found in bodily processes, this article examines apotropaic iconography from the end of the Late Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic in northern Europe.
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2012
Abstract A recent thought concerning Aegean prehistoric figurines was penned by Colin Renfrew. The trajectory of Renfrew's scholarship parallels the trends in the study of Aegean Bronze Age figurines. In 1969, he produced the typological sequence of Early Cycladic figurines.
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Abstract A recent thought concerning Aegean prehistoric figurines was penned by Colin Renfrew. The trajectory of Renfrew's scholarship parallels the trends in the study of Aegean Bronze Age figurines. In 1969, he produced the typological sequence of Early Cycladic figurines.
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2017
The marble sculptures of the Cycladic early bronze age (c.3200–2000 bc) are reviewed, with the schematic and the more detailed Plastiras and Louros forms of the Grotta-Pelos culture and the canonical folded-arm type of the Keros-Syros culture (some more than 1 m in height) with its five well-defined varieties (Kapsala, Spedos, Dokathismata ...
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The marble sculptures of the Cycladic early bronze age (c.3200–2000 bc) are reviewed, with the schematic and the more detailed Plastiras and Louros forms of the Grotta-Pelos culture and the canonical folded-arm type of the Keros-Syros culture (some more than 1 m in height) with its five well-defined varieties (Kapsala, Spedos, Dokathismata ...
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