Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual: A Case Study from Marj Rabba, Israel
Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2016
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Bulletin of ASOR
Год: 2016, Выпуск: 376, Страницы: 7-27 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | HB Ветхий Завет HH Археология KBL Ближний Восток |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Gazelles
B Liminality B Gazelle B Archaeologists B Copper age B Ритуал (мотив) B zooarchaeology B Levant B Chalcolithic |
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| Итог: | Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases, spanning 20,000 years, of ritual behavior involving gazelle body parts. What roles did gazelles play during the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500-3600 b.c.), a period of both decreased hunting and ritual intensification? In this article, we discuss a unique find of burned gazelle feet at the site of Marj Rabba (northern Israel). The feet were found within a well-constructed building that was used for rituals and included two articulated human feet. The gazelle foot bones, the majority of which derive from adult male mountain gazelles (Gazella gazella), appear to reflect the remains of intentionally destroyed skins or severed limbs. This unique find highlights the evolving symbolic importance of gazelles, perhaps as forces of liminality, in Chalcolithic rituals. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.376.0007 |
