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1 online resource (368 pages) |
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Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; LIST OF MEMBERS, WITH ADDRESSES; OPENING ADDRESSES; SECTION I: PREHISTORY; THE QUESTION OF FERTILITY CULTS; I. USES AND ABUSES OF THE TERM; II. THE ART OF HUNTERS AND ITS CONTENTS; III. EARLY POST-PALAEOLITHIC EVIDENCE; IV. THE BIRTH OF AGRICULTURE AND CONNECTED IDEOLOGIES; V. ARCHETYPES AND PARADIGMS; Summary; Bibliography; OLD EUROPE: SACRED MATRIARCHY OR COMPLEMENTARY OPPOSITION?; THE DOMINANCE OF GODDESSES; ANDROGYNYOUS PARTHENOGENESIS OF THE GREAT GODDESS; OLD EUROPE: A MATRIARCHAL UTOPIA?; Summary; Résumé; Bibliography |
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PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGMS OF FERTILITYCULT INTERPRETATIONS:PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEASONAL GODDESSESTHE DATA; Palaeolithic cultures; Neolithic cultures; THEORY; Summary; Bibliography; ANCIENT RELIGIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL TYPES; THE THEORY; THE TYPES; CONCLUSIONS; Summary; Résumé; Bibliography; PROBLÈMES DINTERPRÉTATION DES OBJETS MINIATURES DE DIKILI TASH(NÉOLITHIQUE RÉCENT); Summary; Résumé; Bibliographie; SEATED CLAY FIGURINES FROM THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, ISRAEL; Notes; Bibliography; CULTIC FINDS FROM THE MIDDLE COPPER AGE OF WESTERN HUNGARY -CONNECTIONS WITH SOUTH EAST EUROPE |
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NotesSummary; Resumé; Bibliography; FÉCONDITÉ ET PRATIQUES FUNÉRAIRES EN ÉGÉE A L'ÂGE DU BRONZE; Notes; Summary; Résumé; Bibliographie; OF EARRINGS, SWALLOWS AND THERAN LADIES; Summary; Resume; Bibliograph; UNE INFLUENCE DES RELIGIONS MÉDITERRANÉENNES?ANTHROPOMORPHES, ZOOMORPHES ET PICTOGRAMMES DANS LA MOITIÉ SUD DE LA FRANCE AU 8eme S. AV. J.C.; LES DECORS SUR CÉRAMIQUE:; LE DEBUT DU MESSAGE ECRIT:; LES MODELAGES EN ARGILE, LES BRONZES:; LES CHARS, LEUR FIGURATION ET LE CULTE SOLAIRE:; REMARQUES GENERALES:; Résumé; Bibliographie; SECTION II: PREHISTORY, MALTA |
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THE PREHISTORIC MALTESE ACHIEVEMENT AND ITS INTERPRETATIONFOUR KINDS OF CONTEXT; THE STUDY OF EARLY RELIGIONS; TRANSFORMATIONS; THE MALTESE CASE; Bibliography; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUDITY,OBESITY AND SEXUALITY OF THE MALTESE GODDESS FIGURES; Summary; Résumé; Bibliograph; THE MEGALITHIC TEMPLES OF MALTAAn Anthropological Perspective; Summary; Resume; Bibliography; NEW VIEWS ON THE HYPOGEUM AND TARXIEN; ""THE FAT LADY; II. THE HYPOGEUM: BURIALS; III. THE SLEEPING LADY; IV. THE HYPOGEUM: CONTEXT FOR INCUBATION; V. REINCARNATION; Summary; Resumé; Bibliography |
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TWO RELIEF-CARVINGS OF CHALCOLITHIC MALTASummary; Bibliography; SECTION III: PHOENICIAN AND NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS; UNI-ASHTARTE AND TANIT-IUNO CAELESTIS TWO PHOENICIAN GODDESSES OF FERTILITY RECONSIDERED FROM RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES; Notes; Summary; Résumé; Abbreviations; Bibliography; EGYPTIAN FERTILITY MAGIC WITHIN PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC CULTURE; Notes; Summary.; Bibliography; FERTILITY CULT IN ANCIENT UGARIT; Notes; Summary; Résumé; AN UGARITIC TEXT RELATED TO THE FERTILITY CULT (KTU 1.23); Summary; Résumé; Bibliography |
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The papers in this volume derive from the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta, 1985). The field remains divided between the view supporting the existence of a universal belief in an all-pervading and all-embracing Mother Goddess - of which the fertility cult is just one, albeit important, aspect - and the view questioning the very bases of that theory. This conference showed that there seems to be a greater disposition for further dialogue. The fertility content in Near Eastern and Classical religions remains indisputable. The conference proved to |
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Print version record |
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Archaeology -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses
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Fertility cults -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses
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Antiquities.
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Archaeology.
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Fertility cults.
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Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Mediterranean Region.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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9789027272539 |
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9027272530 |
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