Figurines of the Anatolian Early Bronze Age: the assemblage from Koçumbeli-Ankara

IF 0.3 1区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Çiğdem Atakuman
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Abstract

Abstract Through analysis of a figurine assemblage from the site of Koçumbeli-Ankara, this study aims to re-evaluate the origins, meanings and functions of the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC) anthropomorphic figurines of Anatolia. Conventional typological approaches to figurines are often focused on their origins and sex; however, such approaches hinder an understanding of the context of the norms of production, display and discard within which the figurines become more meaningful. Following an examination of breakage patterns and the decorative aspects of the Koçumbeli assemblage, a comparative review of figurine find contexts, raw materials and abstraction scales in Anatolia is provided, so that the social concerns underlying the use of these figurines can be explored. It is concluded that the origins of the figurines are difficult to pinpoint, due to the presence of similar items across a variety of regions of the Near East from the later Neolithic onwards. The sex of the figurines is equally ambiguous; while some human sexual features can be discerned, it is difficult to decide whether these features are ‘male’, ‘female’, both or beyond classification. Alternatively, the decoration, breakage and find contexts of the figurines suggest that the imagery was embedded in more complex perceptions of social status, death and social regeneration. The need for materialisation of these concerns in the form of the figurines could be related to the development of a new social landscape of interaction leading to political centralisation by the second millennium BC. Furthermore, the figurines were produced through a meaningful linking of particular raw materials and particular abstraction scales to particular use contexts, which seems to have shifted during the centralisation process.
安纳托利亚早期青铜时代的雕像:来自科帕拉桑贝利-安卡拉的集合
摘要通过对安卡拉Koçumbelli遗址的一个雕像组合的分析,本研究旨在重新评估青铜时代早期(公元前3000年)安纳托利亚拟人雕像的起源、意义和功能。对雕像的传统类型学方法通常侧重于它们的起源和性别;然而,这种方法阻碍了对生产、展示和丢弃规范的理解,在这些规范中,雕像变得更有意义。在对Koçumbelli组合的破损图案和装饰方面进行研究后,对安纳托利亚的雕像发现背景、原材料和抽象尺度进行了比较审查,以便探索这些雕像使用背后的社会问题。结论是,这些雕像的起源很难确定,因为从新石器时代晚期开始,近东的各个地区都存在类似的物品。雕像的性别同样模糊不清;虽然人类的一些性特征是可以辨别的,但很难判断这些特征是“男性”还是“女性”,两者都有还是超出了分类范围。或者,雕像的装饰、破损和发现背景表明,这些图像嵌入了对社会地位、死亡和社会再生的更复杂的感知中。这些担忧以雕像的形式具体化的必要性可能与到公元前第二个千年导致政治集权的新的互动社会景观的发展有关。此外,这些雕像是通过将特定的原材料和特定的抽象尺度与特定的使用环境进行有意义的联系而产生的,这似乎在集中化过程中发生了变化。
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Anatolian Studies
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2.20
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13
期刊介绍: Anatolian Studies contains articles focused on Turkey and the Black Sea littoral in all academic disciplines within the arts, humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences as related to human occupation and history. Articles are in English and are accessible to a wide academic readership. Anatolian Studies is a refereed journal.
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