Description
Eszter Bánffy: Cult Objects of the Neolithic Lengyel Culture / Archaeolingua 1997
Publisher: Archaeolingua (December 31, 1997)
Language: English
Paperback: 131 pages
ISBN: 9638046163 / ISBN-13: 9789638046161 / 978-9638046161
Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.3 x 9.1 inches
Language: English
Paperback: 131 pages
ISBN: 9638046163 / ISBN-13: 9789638046161 / 978-9638046161
Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.3 x 9.1 inches
About the Author:
Eszter Bánffy is a Hungarian archaeologist, specialised in European prehistory, in particular of Central and South-east Europe, authoring several books and a wide range of papers. She has worked for the Archaeological Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences; as a professor of prehistoric archaeology and of geoarchaeology (Szeged University), and has been conducting Hungarian and international projects. Since 2013, she has been director of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Description:
"Altarpieces" are artefacts characteristic of the Lengyel and Moravian Painted cultures, extending across central Europe from 4800-4300 BC. Ranging from 4-12 cm high, cubic in shape, with a small depression in the top, these clay objects have puzzled archaeologists. After cataloguing the published finds under a new typological system, the author examines the surroundings of those examples found in closed contexts in order to work her way towards an understanding of their function. She examines their relationship to identical shapes in the Bronze Age of south eastern Europe and their temporal variation in the process.
