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Material Images of Humans from the Natufian to Pottery Neolithic Periods in the Levant (Paperback, New)
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Material Images of Humans from the Natufian to Pottery Neolithic Periods in the Levant (Paperback, New)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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This book is an analysis of a collection of artefacts from the
Neolithic period of the southern Levant. Although they have
traditionally been identified as human images, the relationship of
some of them to naturalistic human anatomy is tenuous, and, drawing
on comparative examples from other periods and locations, Estelle
Orrelle interprets them as images of Gods. Situating the artefacts
in the context of the Neolithic transition, she shows how a
Darwinian symbolic origins theory can explain the emergence of this
iconography; that it lies in ancient sexual selection strategies,
as power relations changed from an original social contract
underpinned by female ritual power, to a new social contract driven
by competing male elites."
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