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Emergence of sedentism: new ways of living, new ways of symbolizing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Randi Haaland
Randi Haaland*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Haakon Sheteligs plass 10, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. E-mail: [email protected]
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What is the role of women in processes leading towards a more sedentary way of life? Pottery plays an important role as a functional factor and in symbolic expressions. With sedentism hearth-centred activities organized around females grew, and the position of the woman as the nurturer. Some of this symbolism, expressed on a multitude of ritual occasions, may be retrievable archaeologically.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 374 - 385
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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