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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
Subject AreaPrehistory
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J. Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

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

page 1

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

Preliminaries

page 1

Contents

page 7

Jörg Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

Preface by the Series Editor

page 9

Jörg Becker, Claudia Beuger, Bernd Müller-Neuhof

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

page 11

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

page 25

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)

page 57

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

page 71

Karina Croucher

Plastered Skulls: Evidence of Grief and Mourning?

page 85

Claudia Beuger

Clothing and Nudity in the Prehistoric Near East

page 97

Bernadette Drabsch

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

page 111

Bernd Müller-Neuhof

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

page 131

Oliver Dietrich, Laura Dietrich, Jens Notroff

Anthropomorphic Imagery at Göbekli Tepe

page 151

Jörg Becker

Figurines of the Halaf Period – Early 6th Millennium calBC

page 167

Olivier Nieuwenhuyse

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

page 189

Goce Naumov, Peter F. Biehl

Chalcolithic Human Representations at Çatalhöyük

page 213

Trevor Watkins

When Do Human Representations Become Superhuman Agents?

page 225

Index

page 237