Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America: Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context

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The present volume is mainly the result of two symposia held at the European Archaeological Association meetings in Krakow (2006) and Zadar (2007), respectively, which gathered studies on the function, morphology, materiality, technology, ritual, function and context of figurines, whether made of clay, wood, metal, stone, bone or shell. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Small Worlds Beyond ‘Venus’ Figurines: Technical Production and Social Practice in Pavlovian Portable Art Dissentions: Magnitude, Usability and the Oddness of Neolithic Figures Neolithic Ceramic Figurines in the Shape of a Woman – House from the Republic of Macedonia Cult Artifacts from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement of Leceia, Oeiras, Portugal The ‘God-dolly’ Wooden Figurine from the Somerset Levels, Britain: The Context, the Place and its Meaning Anthropomorphic Antler Sculptures in Abora Neolithic Settlement (Lake Lubāns Wetland, Latvia) Ritual Technology: An Experimental Approach to Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic Figurines Problems of Identity for Mycenaean Figurines Go Figure! Creating Intertwined Worlds in the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 550–1050) A Cognitive Approach to Variety in the Facial and Bodily Features of Prehistoric Japanese Figurines Fragmentation Practices in Central Japan: Middle Jōmon Clay Figurines at Shakadō Awaking the Symbolic Calendar: Animal Figurines and the Conceptualisation of the Natural World in the Jomon of Northern Japan Can Clues from Egypt’s Dynastic Period Shed Light on Its Predynastic Figurines? Artificial Cranial Vault Modification in Olmec Figurines: Identity, Ancestry and Politics in Early Mesoamerica The Solid Terracotta and Stone Figurines from Central Region of the Bolaños Canyon in the State of Jalisco, Mexico Figurines in the Heart of the Aztec Empire