TY - JOUR
T1 - Figurative representations from neveh yam and other sites in Israel
T2 - Markers of the late neolithic/ early chalcolithic south levant cultures
AU - Galili, Ehud
AU - Yaroshevich, Alla
AU - Rosen, Baruch
AU - Getzov, Nimrod
AU - Milevski, Ianir
AU - Orrelle, Estelle
AU - Horwitz, Liora Kolska
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Four symbolic artefacts were recovered from the Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah culture) site of Neveh Yam, dated to the sixth-fifth millennia BCE. These comprise two anthropomorphic figurines made of stone, one anthropomorphic image incised on bone and a sherd with zoomorphic incisions. These artefacts are described and discussed with reference to similar objects found in additional Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic sites in the southern Levant and later sites in Mesopotamia, the Aegean and the Iberian Peninsula. It is proposed that the bone figurines from Neveh Yam, cEn Sippori and Ha-Gosherim could represent a symbolic marker for the Wadi Rabah culture and contemporary cultures in the southern Levant.
AB - Four symbolic artefacts were recovered from the Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah culture) site of Neveh Yam, dated to the sixth-fifth millennia BCE. These comprise two anthropomorphic figurines made of stone, one anthropomorphic image incised on bone and a sherd with zoomorphic incisions. These artefacts are described and discussed with reference to similar objects found in additional Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic sites in the southern Levant and later sites in Mesopotamia, the Aegean and the Iberian Peninsula. It is proposed that the bone figurines from Neveh Yam, cEn Sippori and Ha-Gosherim could represent a symbolic marker for the Wadi Rabah culture and contemporary cultures in the southern Levant.
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M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85011841599
SN - 0021-2059
VL - 66
SP - 129
EP - 150
JO - Israel Exploration Journal
JF - Israel Exploration Journal
IS - 2
ER -