TY - JOUR
T1 - Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations
T2 - A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant
AU - Yeomans, Lisa
AU - Gelting, Unn
AU - Killackey, Kathryn
AU - Pantos, Alexis
AU - Salicath Halvorsen, Asta
AU - Richter, Tobias
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The use of animal bones to form figurative representations is well documented ethnographically and archaeologically. In this paper, we describe an intriguing group of bones from Shubayqa 6, a transitional Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in north-east Jordan, and consider the possibility that these bones are figurative representations. The assemblage is comprised of sets of articulating phalanges, from 21 limbs of wild sheep and gazelle, found as part of a group of artefacts. If this tentative interpretation for the Shubayqa 6 bones is correct, future discussions on the frequency of figurative representations by communities at the transition from hunting and foraging to agriculture in Southwest Asia may benefit from broader consideration of bones clusters
AB - The use of animal bones to form figurative representations is well documented ethnographically and archaeologically. In this paper, we describe an intriguing group of bones from Shubayqa 6, a transitional Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in north-east Jordan, and consider the possibility that these bones are figurative representations. The assemblage is comprised of sets of articulating phalanges, from 21 limbs of wild sheep and gazelle, found as part of a group of artefacts. If this tentative interpretation for the Shubayqa 6 bones is correct, future discussions on the frequency of figurative representations by communities at the transition from hunting and foraging to agriculture in Southwest Asia may benefit from broader consideration of bones clusters
U2 - 10.1080/00758914.2021.1974206
DO - 10.1080/00758914.2021.1974206
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0075-8914
VL - 53
SP - 123
EP - 138
JO - Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant
JF - Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant
IS - 2
ER -