Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic miniature figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-Amercia.
Subtitle: Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context
Publisher: Archaeopress, British Archaeological reports
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Small Worlds (Dragos Gheorghiu and Ann Cyphers); 1) Beyond ‘Venus’ figurines: technical production and social practice in Pavlovian portable art (Rebecca A. Farbstein); 2) Dissentions: magnitude, usability and the oddness of Neolithic figures (Christina Marangou); 3) Neolithic ceramic figurines in the shape of a woman–house from the Republic of Macedonia; title: (Nikos Chausidis); 4) Cult artifacts from the Neolithic and chalcolithic settlement of Leceia, Oeiras, Portugal (João Luís Cardoso); 5) The ‘god‐dolly’ wooden figurine from the Somerset levels, Britain: the context, the place and its meaning (Clive Jonathon Bond); 6) Anthropomorphic antler sculptures in Abora Neolithic settlement (lake Lubāns wetland, Latvia) (Ilze Biruta Loze); 7) Ritual technology: an experimental approach to Cucuteni‐Tripolye chalcolithic figurines (Dragos Gheorghiu); 8) Problems of identity for Mycenaean figurines (Andrea Vianello); 9) Go figure! Creating intertwined worlds in the Scandinavian late Iron Age (AD 550–1050) (Ing‐Marie Back Danielsson); 10) A cognitive approach to variety in the facial and bodily features of prehistoric Japanese figurines (Naoko Matsumoto and Hideaki Kawabata); 11) Fragmentation practices in central Japan: middle Jōmon clay figurines at Shakadō (Ilona Bausch); 12) Awaking the symbolic calendar: animal figurines and the conceptualisation of the natural world in the Jomon of northern Japan (Liliana Janik); 13) Can clues from Egypt’s dynastic period shed light on its predynastic figurines? (Aloisia de Trafford); 14) Artificial cranial vault modification in Olmec figurines: identity,; title: ancestry and politics in early Mesoamerica (Ann Cyphers); 15) The solid terracotta and stone figurines from central region of the Bolaños Canyon in the state of Jalisco, Mexico (Ma. Teresa Cabrero); 16) Figurines in the heart of the Aztec Empire (Cynthia L. Otis Charlton and Thomas H. Charlton).