Vessel guardians: sculpture and graphics related to the ceramics of NorthEastern European hunter-gatherers

Documenta Praehistorica

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kashina¹  Aleksandr Zhulnikov² 

[1]State Historical Museum, Department of Archaeology$$

[2]Petrozavodsk State University, Chair of History, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia$$

关键词: hunter-gatherers;    forest zone;    Eastern Europe;    ceramics;    clay sculpture;   

DOI  :  10.4312/dp.42.20

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Univerza v Ljubljani * Filozofska Fakulteta / University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Philosophy

【 摘 要 】

North-Eastern European hunter-gatherer ceramic sculptures, relief sculptures and graphic images on vessels are discussed. Five groups of finds are distinguished according to their chronology (4000–2500 BC cal) and represented subject (birds, human head, human figure, mammal head etc.). Their production believes to be a female craft, their making had ritual aims and their emerging was independent from any influences of pastoral/agricultural societies.

【 授权许可】

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