TY - JOUR
T1 - The Khirbet Kerak Ware figurine
T2 - a new component in the Kura-Araxes cultural assemblage
AU - Knudsen, Nadeshda Bladt
AU - Greenberg, Raphael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Council for British Research in the Levant 2020.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Recent excavations of Khirbet Kerak Ware contexts at the type site of Khirbet el-Kerak/Tel Bet Yerah and re-investigation of earlier finds from this site have permitted the technological and typological identification of a distinct category of zoomorphic figurines, associated exclusively with the characteristic red-black burnished Khirbet Kerak ceramics. Comparative study shows affinity between these figurines and similar objects found in different parts of the Kura-Araxes cultural community, from the Levant to the Iranian plateau. Consisting solely of horned cattle, we suggest that zoomorphic figurines represent a significant aspect of the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition in its expansion along the margins of the West Asian political and economic cores, during the final phase of the ‘secondary products revolution’.
AB - Recent excavations of Khirbet Kerak Ware contexts at the type site of Khirbet el-Kerak/Tel Bet Yerah and re-investigation of earlier finds from this site have permitted the technological and typological identification of a distinct category of zoomorphic figurines, associated exclusively with the characteristic red-black burnished Khirbet Kerak ceramics. Comparative study shows affinity between these figurines and similar objects found in different parts of the Kura-Araxes cultural community, from the Levant to the Iranian plateau. Consisting solely of horned cattle, we suggest that zoomorphic figurines represent a significant aspect of the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition in its expansion along the margins of the West Asian political and economic cores, during the final phase of the ‘secondary products revolution’.
KW - Khirbet Kerak Ware
KW - Kura-Araxes
KW - Zoomorphic figurines
KW - southern Levant
KW - traction complex
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U2 - 10.1080/00758914.2020.1827562
DO - 10.1080/00758914.2020.1827562
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AN - SCOPUS:85092777317
SN - 0075-8914
VL - 51
SP - 271
EP - 286
JO - Levant
JF - Levant
IS - 3
ER -