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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