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The 40,000-Year-Old Female Figurine of Hohle Fels: Previous Assumptions and New Perspectives
, 2020 As the earliest image of a human being and the oldest piece of figurative art, the female figurine of Hohle Fels remains a significant discovery for understanding the development of symbolic behaviour in Homo sapiens.
Stannard, MK, Langley, MC
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A Critique on the Book Pre-Islamic Sculpture and Iconography in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 In the prehistoric and pre-Islamic civilizations of Iran, human beings have used sculpture and iconography to express their needs and beliefs. These works show the attitude, culture, cover, religion, and progress in the life of the past in ancient Iran ...
Alireza Taheri, Samira Nasr Esfahani
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The Decoration and Firing of Ancient Greek Pottery: A Review of Recent Investigations
Advances in Archaeomaterials, 2021 The wealth and diversity of decoration on Greek pottery continues to attract science-based attention. The availability of increasingly powerful analytical techniques has allowed the nature of the decoration to be investigated in ever-finer detail, down ...
Richard Jones
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2017 The ‘Lormier bronze’, named after its earliest known owner, is an exceptional statuette made of copper alloy. It is remarkable, both by its subject and its style, of very fine quality; but also by its state of conservation, namely its gilding, which ...
Alexis Bonnefoy, Michel Feugère
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A Grotesque/Ethnic Figurine Fragment from Ballıcaoluk Settlement at Mount Nif (Olympos)
Arkhaia AnatolikaBallıcaoluk, one of the excavation areas of the Mount Nif (Olympos) Excavation, is a fortified settlement within the borders of Vişneli village in Kemalpaşa (Nymphaion), on the east side of Mt. Nif.
Göknur BEKTAŞ
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, 1999 Figurine: face: UPT-3111.; Excavated from Feature 29, Union Station area, Los Angeles, CA, 1989 ...
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Ceramicists, Apprentices or Part-Timers? On the Modelling and Assembling of Peak Sanctuary Figurines
EXARC Journal, 2020 The question of who made peak sanctuary figurines has frequently been raised but seldom deeply examined. The assumption that the aesthetically refined pieces were carefully made by skilled ‘artists’ while the less visually pleasing ones were rapidly made
Céline Murphy
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On two Terracotta Figurines [PDF]
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1895 Among the recent additions to the collection of terracotta figurines in the British Museum are two which I am permitted to publish by the kindness of Mr. A. S. Murray.The first (Fig. 1, Plate IV.) was found at Myrina in Asia Minor and represents a youthful winged male figure, leaning on a pillar and burning a butterfly over the flame of a small altar ...
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, 2020 This book concerns figurines from cultures that have no direct links with each other. It explores the category of the figurine as a key material concept in the art history of antiquity through comparative juxtaposition of papers drawn from Chinese, pre-Columbian, and Greco-Roman culture.
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