Neolithic Figurines of Western Europe

Abstract

Scarre, Chris (2017) 'Neolithic gurines of Western Europe.', in The Oxford handbook of prehistoric gurines. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 877-900.Further information on publisher's website:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-prehistoric-gurines-9780199675616This is a draft of a chapter that was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the book 'The Oxford handbook of prehistoric gurines' edited by Tim Insoll and published in 2017.Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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“…164. ) formed as large 'owl-like' rayed eyes with radial lines and sometimes eyebrows, seen on the Iberian 'eyed-idols' (ídolos oculados) and engraved stone plaques, c. 3500-2000 BCE, some of which also show rayed eyes, noses, 'whiskers' or tattoos (Hurtado 2008;Lillios 2008;Scarre 2017).…”

A Face From the British Iron Age: A Decorated Iron Age Weaving Comb From Harwell, Oxfordshire

“…The earliest figural representations of people are the stylized faces on the Neolithic chalk 'drums' from Folkton, East Yorkshire (Longworth 1999) and a small number of figurines from Orkney (Goring 2011; Varndell 2012; Scarre 2017, 879–80), while the earliest of the few prehistoric wooden figurines also date to this period (Coles 1990). Although much of their detail was lost as they shrunk, twisted and became distorted on drying out after their discovery, the figurines from Ballachulish, in the Highlands, Kinsteignton from Devon, and Roos Carr in East Yorkshire, all had – and the figures on the Roos Carr boat still have – well‐modelled faces, sometimes with pebbles inset as their eyes.…”

Al servicio de la divinidad. Figuras antropomorfas oculadas calcolíticas del sur de la península ibérica en piedra, marfil y hueso

“…ídolos antropomorfos, siguiendo algunas de las lí neas interpretativas más recientes (Hoffman, 2002;Hendrix, 2003;Insoll ed., 2017;Scarre, 2017;Mar cus, 2019), cambio de perspectiva que comienza desde la primera sistematización de Ucko (1965) para el predinástico egipcio, seguida por Renfrew (1969; para el ámbito cicládico en el Egeo y continuada por Branigan (1971) para Creta.…”