Semper Ardens Accelerate Research Project: A world without images. The absence of figurines in Early Neolithic Northern Europe
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Rune Iversen - Participant
Valeska Doris Becker - Participant
Rebecca Bristow - Participant
This project explains the significant absence of figurines among the first farmers of Northern Europe. Small clay figurines make a characteristic feature of Europe's earliest agricultural societies and were part of the initial Neolithic package including domesticated crops and animals, polished stone tools, pottery etc. From the 8th to the 6th millennium BC, Neolithic life spread into Europe from its origin in the Near East. However, as farming reached Central Europe the number of figurines decreased and when agriculture expanded to Northern Europe they had disappeared. This project seeks explanations for the absence of figurines in deep socio-cultural and ritual-religious differences clearly dividing Neolithic Europe in a figurative south-eastern part and an imageless northern part.
1 Sep 2022 → 31 Aug 2025
- Neolithic Europe, Figurines, Figurative representations, Prehistoric art, Neolithization, Socio-cultural change, Religious/ideological change
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- E-pub ahead of print
Figurative Representations in the North European Neolithic—Are They There?
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
ID: 387033300