Symbols at ʻAin Ghazal
By: edited by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Series: ʻAin Ghazal excavation reports -- volume 3; Bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis; Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology (Yarmouk University); ʻAin Ghazal excavation reports -- v. 3.; Bibliotheca neolithica Asiae meridionalis et occidentalis; Monograph of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: ex oriente
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9783944178035
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Antiquities; Ancient Art; Tokens
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The town of ʻAin Ghazal / Gary O. Rollefson and Zeiden A. Kafafi; title: Token finds at pre-pottery Neolithic ʻAin Ghazal : a formal and technological analysis / Harry Iceland; title: Tokens and writing : the cognitive development / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Animal figurines : the ʻAin Ghazal zoomorphic assemblage / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: The human clay figurines and ancient Near Eastern magic : the human clay figurines collection / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: A stone metaphor of creation / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Three plaster faces / Carol A. Grissom and Patricia S. Griffin; title: The plastered skulls / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Statue cache 2 / Carol A. Grissom; title: ʻAin Ghazal "monumental" figures : a sylistic analysis / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Murals and floor paintings at ʻAin Ghazal / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Standing stones of the Neolithic village of ʻAin Ghazal / Zeidan A. Kafafi; title: Neolithic symbolism at ʻAin Ghazal : the archaeological assemblage / Denise Schmandt-Besserat.