The Neolithic And Chalcolithic Figurines Of Cyprus
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Author | : Christine Winkelmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2020-07 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9783963270123 |
From the contents:00I. Introduction0II. Archaeological Background0III. Neolithic figurines0IV. Chalcolithic stone figurines0V. Chalcolithic pottery figurines0VI. Chalcolithic picrolite figurines0VII. Chalcolithic figurative pendants0VIII. Further observations and considerations0IX. The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cypriot figurines in their entirety0X. Summary0XI. Appendices0XII. Catalogue0Maps0Plates.
Author | : Vassos Karageorghis |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1990-05-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892361689 |
The latest finds--architectural remains, burial objects, stone artifacts, pottery, and copper objects--from recent excavations indicate that Cyprus played a more pivotal role in pre-Bronze Age socioeconomic development than was previously thought. This book describes findings from excavations at Lemba, the site where the most important new information about this period has been uncovered. Included are illustrations of many previously unpublished or unexhibited materials from both the Cyprus Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. This book serves as a catalog to the February 1990 exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Author | : Anna Laetitia A Campo |
Publisher | : Coronet Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Paul Getty Museum |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1997-02-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892362073 |
This collection of papers presents the results of a symposium held at the Getty Museum in February 1990. Recent archaeological excavations provide evidence that Cyprus had a great cultural and economic importance during the Bronze Age. The contributors discuss aspects of the Bronze Age as they relate to Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean. Topics include the economy of the period, its basis in the exploitation of metals and stone, Cyprus’s international influence on trade, and religion and evidence of that influence though interpretation of archaeological sites and artifacts.
Author | : Edgar Peltenburg |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 873 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178925020X |
The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artifacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. Chief among these are a multitude of cruciform figurines and pendants. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors. Excavations at the Laona settlement have furnished evidence suggesting that it functioned as a specialised center for the procurement and manufacture of picrolite during its early phase. The subsequent decline of picrolite production and the earliest known occurrence of new types of ornaments, such as faience beads and copper spiral pendants, attest to important changes involving the transformation of personal and social identities during the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BC, a topic that forms a central theme of this final report on the site.
Author | : Vassos Karageorghis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Bernard Knapp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 661 |
Release | : 2013-03-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521897823 |
This book examines the archaeology of Cyprus from the first-known human presence during the Late Epipalaeolithic through the end of the Bronze Age.
Author | : Julian Reade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Goring |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Figurines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Timothy Insoll |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1123 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191663107 |
Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.