Description
Book SynopsisFar more than merely a catalogue of the exhibition, it offers for a wide readership an introduction to the art of late prehistory (around 4000 BC) in Iran and Iraq, by bringing together a range of expressive visual tools-seals, sealings and painted pottery.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. This Fertile Land Margaret Cool Root
Part II: Iran in the System of Things
2. An Overview of Place and Space Lori Khatchadourian and Margaret Cool Root
3. Seals and Sealings: Archaeological Perspectives Lori Khatchadourian
Part III: Signs and Symbols
4. The Chevron-Filled Cross and Early Communicative Systems Jane Rempel
5. Systems of Symbolic Expression Margaret Cool Root
6. Shamans, Seals, and Magic Andrew Wilburn
7. Modes of Religious Experience in Late Prehistory Karen Johnson
8. Fertility: Of Snakes, Displayed Females, Scorpions, Tortoises, Frogs Margaret Cool Root
Part IV: Historiography, Archaeology, and the Art Market
9. Problems in Interpreting Late Prehistory Margaret Cool Root
10. Archaeology and Collecting: Law, Ethics, Politics Hima Mallampati
11. Tepe Giyan Lives. Herzfeld's Harvest - Jane For Adams's Buttons Margaret Cool Root
Part V: Apparatus
Appendix on Materials Analysis Kathleen Davis and Suzanne Davis
Catalogue of Artifacts, Didactics, and Images in the Exhibition Margaret Cool Root
Concordance: Artifacts (by Collection) to Catalogue Numbers Margaret Cool Root
Woks Cited
Selected Index of Signs, Sumbols, and Their Associations
