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Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory

Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 11

Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8205-4
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8658-8
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J. Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory (complete version)

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Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory (Gesamt-PDF, Cover und Index)

Preliminaries

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Contents

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Jörg Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

Preface by the Series Editor

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Jörg Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory: An Introduction

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Michael Schultz, Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz

Health and Disease in the Prehistoric and Early Historical Near East: A Contribution to the Reconstruction of Ancient Living Conditions

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Bérénice Chamel, Eric Coqueugniot

Human Self-perception and Self-expression during the 9th Millennium calBC: Funerary Practices and Symbolic Meaning of the Human Representations at Dja’de el-Mughara (Syria)

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Miquel Molist, Anabel Ortiz, Anna Gómez-Bach

Symbolic Artefacts in the Syrian Euphrates Valley in the Middle and Late PPNB: Contributions of the Tell Halula Project in an Interpretative Context

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Karina Croucher

Plastered Skulls: Evidence of Grief and Mourning?

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Claudia Beuger

Clothing and Nudity in the Prehistoric Near East

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Bernadette Drabsch

Nude, Robed and Masked Processions: Considering the Figural Images in the Teleilat Ghassul Wall Paintings, Jordan

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Bernd Müller-Neuhof

Signals from the Past: Gestures in South-west Asian Anthropomorphic Iconography – Preliminary Observations

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Oliver Dietrich, Laura Dietrich, Jens Notroff

Anthropomorphic Imagery at Göbekli Tepe

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Jörg Becker

Figurines of the Halaf Period – Early 6th Millennium calBC

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Olivier Nieuwenhuyse

See or Touch? Applied Humanoid Imagery from Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia

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Goce Naumov, Peter F. Biehl

Chalcolithic Human Representations at Çatalhöyük

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Trevor Watkins

When Do Human Representations Become Superhuman Agents?

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Index

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