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- Title
People of Stone: Stelae, Personhood, and Society in Prehistoric Europe.
- Authors
Robb, John
- Abstract
Stelae (also known variously as statue-stelae and statue-menhirs) are a pan-European phenomenon in fourth and third millennia b.c. Europe and are clearly associated with the social transformations characterizing Europe in this period. While the varying traditions of stelae, from the Ukraine to Iberia, differ considerably, they also share a set of general aesthetic choices towards representing the human body, reducing the body to a rigidly schematic, highly stylized with a widely shared geometry and with emphasis upon its surface as a canvas for social marking, particularly of gender. This paper reviews the aesthetic choices involved in stelae and relates them to the changing social contexts of later prehistoric Europe.
- Subjects
EUROPE; UKRAINE; STELE (Archaeology); STATUES; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 3, p162
- ISSN
1072-5369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10816-009-9066-z