The social role of Neolithic face pots

0478623 - ARÚ 2018 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Pavlů, Ivan - Šumberová, Radka
The social role of Neolithic face pots.
Bodies of clay. On prehistoric humanised pottery. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017 - (Schwarzberg, H.; Becker, V.), s. 110-120. ISBN 978-1-78570-696-7.
[Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists /19./. Plzeň (CZ), 04.09.2013-08.09.2013]
R&D Projects: GA MK(CZ) DF12P01OVV032
Keywords : Neolithic * face pot * anthropomorphic pot * Kolín
OECD category: Archaeology

Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic pots are widespread in all kinds of cultures around the world. We can therefore consider this topic a global one in archaeology, similarly to other topics such as caves, shell middens, megaliths, cave paintings and many more. It is, however, necessary for practical reasons to delimit their study in terms of both time and space. We are going to focus on Neolithic findings from the central European area and comparable objects from the Balkans and the ancient Near East. We work on the assumption that all pots, not only the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ones, were personified to a certain extent and that their role in prehistoric society derived from this context.
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