RT Article
T1 Syncretistic and Mnemonic Dimensions of Chalcolithic Art: A New Human Figurine from Shiqmim
JF The Biblical archaeologist
VO 59
IS 3
SP 150
OP 159
A1 Levy, Thomas E.
A1 Golden, Jonathan
LA English
PB Scholars Press
YR 1996
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1787585573
AB The large Chalcolithic (ca. 4500-3500 BCE) village and mortuary complex of Shiqmim in Israel's Negev has produced a unique diminutive human figurine. Its anthropomorphic features are captivating, but it also shares in the abstract artistic style of "violin-shape" figurines. Uniquely bringing together these two distinct southern Levantine artistic traditions, the Shiqmim figurine permits us to see overlapping cultural, stylistic, spatial, and chronological dimensions of the Chalcolithic culture of Palestine. The intrinsically beautiful bone carving may also have had a more concrete social function: the authors suggest it may have served as a mnemonic device.
DO 10.2307/3210546