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Chapter 5 - Other Arts

Ornaments, Seals, and Stone Vases

from Part I - Aegean Neolithic Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Ornaments (bracelets, pins, beads) undergo major development in the Neolithic. Aside from clay, stone, and bone, certain imported materials, including shells like Spondylus, and metals such as gold, silver (perhaps coming from Siphnos in the Cyclades), and copper, are used for necklace beads, earrings, or small hammered and polished pendants (Kyparissi-Apostolika 2001; C. Perlès, in Dietz 2018, 331–40).

Metal jewellery appears in the Late Neolithic: a cut-out disc of gold sheet in Volos Museum, topped with a trapezoidal projection pierced with two small holes, forms part of a class of pendants of ring-idol type thought to be highly schematic representations of the human body (AE1, fig. 40; Papathanassopoulos 1996, n° 299). They occur in various other materials (silver, stone, clay, shell) and have a wide distribution in cemeteries from the shores of the Black Sea to central Europe. They are well represented in the cemetery of Varna.

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Further Reading

Kyparissi-Apostolika, 2001: Kyparissi-Apostolika, N., Les objets de parure préhistoriques de Thessalie (in Greek), Athens.Google Scholar
Perlès, 2018: Perlès, C., Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece 15. Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi. Vol. 1: The Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic, Bloomington, IN.Google Scholar
Takaoglu, 2005: Takaoglu, T., A Chalcolithic Marble Workshop at Kulaksizlar in Western Anatolia, Oxford.Google Scholar

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  • Other Arts
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.006
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  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.006
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  • Other Arts
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.006
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