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Material Images of Humans from the Natufian to Pottery Neolithic Periods in the Levant

Estelle Orrelle
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This book focuses on the 'un-naturalistic' iconography of human imagery intuitively regarded as 'super-natural'. A Darwinian model of the evolution of symbolic culture, the Female Cosmetic Coalitions model, provides theoretical grounding for the earliest androgynous and therianthropic religious representations and provides theoretical confidence as to the long-term survival of symbols. An analogy between simple shapes and human genitalia expresses the fusion of male and female. The background is the transition from hunting and gathering to farming; power relations are presented as changing from an 'original social contract' underpinned by female ritual power, to a 'new social contract' driven by competing male elites.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Abstract
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART I
  • Map of the Levant
  • Chronology
  • CHAPTER ONE Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO Literature Review
  • CHAPTER THREE Theory and Methodology
  • CHAPTER FOUR Archaeological Background to the End of the Natufian
  • CHAPTER FIVE Archaeological Background Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic Periods
  • CHAPTER SIX Interpretation
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Interpretation – Male Gods
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Other Theories
  • CHAPTER NINE Implications for the Neolithic
  • Bibliography
  • PART II
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Published: 2014
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Copyright Holder: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407312231 (paperback)
  • 9781407341927 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2595
Subject
  • Ceramics and Pottery Studies
  • Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
  • Levant / Near East
  • Neolithic / Chalcolithic
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