Assembling, Displaying, and Dissembling Neolithic and Eneolithic Figurines and Models

Marangou, Christina

doi:10.1179/096576696800688169

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“…This argument seems to hold for the later Neolithic, suggesting some continuity in the place of domestic animals within society, perhaps with an increasing focus on cattle. Clusters of figurines found in situ (Chapman, 1981: 73;Šljivar & Jacanovic, 2005) might represent herds (Marangou, 1996).…”

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Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic

Orton

2012

Eur. j. archaeol.

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The Neolithic in the central Balkans saw dramatic changes in settlement forms, architecture, and material culture, with substantial, often long-lived settlements that can reasonably be called villages emerging in the later part of the period. This paper examines the role of herding practices in the development of these large, more-or-less settled communities. Radiocarbon results (including twenty-seven new AMS dates from Gomolava, Opovo, and Petnica) are used to place the available zooarchaeological data into a chronological framework, allowing comparison of inter- and intra-site changes across the region. The data point to the development of large-scale cattle herding in the later Neolithic, the implications of which for mobility and community cohesion are discussed. This trend is seen clearly over time at certain sites but, like the settlement evidence, is neither universal nor synchronous across the region, emphasizing that change occurred, and should be understood, on the level of individual communities.

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Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic

Orton

2012

Eur. j. archaeol.

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“…Monah's study of the contexts in which the figurines were deposited shows that sets of complete figurines were rarely found, in structures thereby interpreted as shrines, while fragmentary figurines -often deliberately broken in mid-life and re-used 'after the break' (Chapman 2000;Chapman and Gaydarska 2007;Gheorghiu 2005) -could be deposited in houses, pits or the occupation level (Monah 2012: 41-49). The re-fitting of fragments from the same figurine in different burnt house assemblages on the same site (e.g., Majdanetske: Shmaglij and Videiko 2002-3) shows that there is more to figurines than a simple dichotomy between living contexts (complete figurines used in sets) and contexts of deposition (fragments of figurines deposited after their use-life was over; e.g., Marangou 1996). There is strong evidence for the use of both complete and fragmentary figurines in ceremonies, especially in various stages of the 'death-of-the-house' rituals.…”

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The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions

Chapman¹,

Gaydarska²

2018

Between History and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Jacek Lech

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“…Moreover, they were believed to symbolise a series of gender and symbolic attributes that were carried forward with the spread of farming and went on to constitute part of the 'new materiality' that defined the key economic and ideological features of the Balkan Neolithic (Gimbuts 1989;Biehl 1996. 153-175;Marangou 1996Marangou . 176-2002Chapman 2000;Bailey 2005;Hansen 2005.…”

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The transition to farming and the ceramic trajectories in Western Eurasia. From ceramic figurines to vessels

Budja

2006

Doc. praeh.

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In Eurasia the invention of ceramic technology and production of fired-clay vessels has not necessarily been related to the dynamics of the transition to farming. The invention of ceramic technology in Europe was associated with female and animal figurine making in Gravettian technocomplex. The fired-clay vessels occurred first in hunter-gatherer contexts in Eastern Eurasia a millennia before the agriculture. The adoption of pottery making in Levant seems to correlate with the collapse of the ‘ritual economy’, social decentralisation and community fragmentation in the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In South-eastern Europe the adoption of pottery making was closely associated with social, symbolic and ritual hunter-gatherers’ practices.

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Assembling, Displaying, and Dissembling Neolithic and Eneolithic Figurines and Models

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic

Herding, Settlement, and Chronology in the Balkan Neolithic

The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’ – Reflections on the Making of Millennial Cultural Traditions

The transition to farming and the ceramic trajectories in Western Eurasia. From ceramic figurines to vessels

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