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Dancing and the Beginning of Art Scenes in the Early Village Communities of the Near East and Southeast Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Yosef Garfinkel
Yosef Garfinkel
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Institute of ArchaeologyThe Hebrew UniversityJerusalem 91905 Israel
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Abstract

Dancing is depicted in the earliest art of the ancient Near East. It appears in many variations from the ninth to the sixth millennium BP over a vast geographical range. This article discusses the dancing performance, the social context of the dance and cognitive aspects of the dancing scenes. Ethnographic observations are used in order to gain a wider view of dancing and dancing scenes in pre-state societies. A correlation can be observed between art, symbolism, religion and social organization.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1998 , pp. 207 - 237
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1998

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