Anthropomorphic Figurines of early Bronze Age Anatolia

• Authors: Makowski M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with anthropomorphic figurines of Early Bronze Age Anatolia: their typology, meaning and function. Having rejected hitherto existing interpretations as unfounded, the present author analyses the figurines' formal features and their find contexts in order to reconstruct the way they were used and the symbolic meaning they supposedly conveyed. The analysis of the development of Anatolian figurines enables us to trace the genesis of the so-called 'idols', that is schematic stylized figurines characteristic for the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory.

Keywords

EN

ANATOLIA; EARLY BRONZE AGE; FIGURINES; IDOLS

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 7-30
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Makowski M.

• M. Makowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Badan Srodziemnomorskich , ul. Nowy Swiat 4, 00-499 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01874013