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| Absolute Chronology: 7000 - 3500 BC |
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| Artefact's
name: The Thinker |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The figurine known as The Thinker is a masterpiece of
the European Prehistory |
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| Artefact's
name: The Seated Woman |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The Seated Woman is the Thinker's pair |
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| Artefact's
name: Anthropomorphic statuette with pot on
the head |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The figurine has a striking visual message materialized
in its attitude |
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| Artefact's
name: Statuette with two heads |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The artefact depicts a rare and thought-provoking iconographical
theme |
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| Artefact's
name: The Goddess of Sultana |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The vessel, known as The Goddess of Sultana, impresses
by its contemplative attitude and complex decoration |
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| Artefact's
name: Miniature sanctuary model |
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| The artefact, made of grey-yellowish clay, is probably
one of the oldest representations of a sanctuary |
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| Artefact's
name: Impressed ware with sun and two figures
in adorati |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Large ovoidal shaped jar with four small horizontal handles,
decorated with cardial impressions to represent a stylized
man in worship, some spikes and the sun . |
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| Artefact's
name: Bone pendant with circular indentations |
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| Rectangular fragment of a small plate made out of bone,
decorated with several lines of holes. |
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| Artefact's
name: Pintadera |
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| Oval shaped, quite elongated pintadera made out of a
black clay.The pintaderas are traditionally interpreted
as tattoo instruments, but they could be also textile
stamps or systems of reconnaissance in... |
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| Artefact's
name: Kourotropos |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The figurine depicts one of the oldest representations
of the motherhood |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Vessel made of clay painted with encoded geometrical
decorative motifs |
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| Artefact's
name: Plate with incises |
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| Rounded shape with a cone-like handle at the back side.
At the front side - shallow incised signs. Brown-black
surface |
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| The seal has a rounded shape with a cone-like handle
in the back. |
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| Artefact's
name: Cult scene |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The scene probably is a replica of a real existed sanctuary.
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| Artefact's
name: Statuette of Favella |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| From the Early Neolithic village of Favella comes a set
of pottery statuettes with a special emphasis on the sexual
aspects of the motherhood |
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| Artefact's
name: Marmotta’s Venus |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Period: Early Neolithic Period |
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| The so-called Marmotta’s Venus, a female carved stone
figurine, was found by the underwater excavations in the
village. |
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| Artefact's
name: Double-faced vessel |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Period: Middle Neolithic Age |
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| The reconstructed bottle-shaped vessel. |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Period: Middle Neolithic Age |
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| Medium sized, round flanked pot. |
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| Artefact's
name: Miniature jar |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Chronology: 1st half 5th mil. BC |
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| Period: Middle Neolithic Age |
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| Artefact's
name: Facial vessel in the form of a sitting
figure |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Period: Middle Neolithic Age |
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| This vessel thoroughly imitates the form of the human
body. |
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| Artefact's
name: Idol head fragment |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Period: Middle Neolithic Age |
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| Roughly worked head of an idol from clay made lean with
sand and chaff. |
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| Artefact's
name: Human depiction |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The sculpture is of oval-cylindrical shape. |
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| Artefact's
name: Female figurine |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Illustrations of mother deities as a symbol for fertility
were widespread in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic
und Neolithic periods. |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Drums made of clay and leather were be used during the
Walternienburg-Bernburg period as music instruments. |
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| Artefact's
name: Clay anthropomorphic vase |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Period: Late Neolithic II |
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| Clay anthropomorphic vase decorated with incisions. |
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| Artefact's
name: The Fox of Pietrele |
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| Object type:
Animal figurine |
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| The artefact is one of the most realistic Neolithic zoomorphic
figurines |
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| Artefact's
name: Clay seal |
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| Clay, conical seal with numerical symbols on the surface.
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| Artefact's
name: Marble female figurine |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Marble, female,steatopygic figurine, probably a goddess
or a priestess. |
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| Artefact's
name: Ring shaped amulet |
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| Gold ring-shaped amulet of hammered sheet depicting a
very schematised female figure. |
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| Artefact's
name: Spindle - whorl |
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| Clay discoid spindle-whorl with incised symbols, dated
to the Late or the Final Neolithic period (4800-3300 BC).
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| Artefact's
name: Stone anthropomorphic amulet |
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| Period: Late Neolithic or Final... |
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| Stone anthropomorphic amulet |
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| Artefact's
name: Stone horned amulet |
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| Period: Late Neolithic II |
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| Stone anthropomorphic amulet |
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| Artefact's
name: The Kourotrophos (Nurse) |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Seated woman with a baby in her arms |
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| Artefact's
name: The thinker |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Large clay figurine of a seated male |
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| Artefact's
name: Bison from Sipinci |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| European bison with straggly neck coat |
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| Artefact's
name: Golden disc from Stollhof |
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| Two golden discs made of gold sheets, sometimes regarded
as stylised symbols of a goddess. |
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| Artefact's
name: Spoon with pictograph from Wetzleinsdorf
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| Incised decoration at the back of a spoon with presumably
symbolic meaning |
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| Artefact's
name: Female figurine from Pazardzik |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Figurine with incised tattoes |
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| Artefact's
name: Double-faced vessel B |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Chronology: 5200-5000/4900 BC |
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| Neolithic Double-faced pot with "M" -shaped line framing
the face from Budapest, Békásmegyer |
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| Artefact's
name: Statuette of Favella B |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| The statuette representing a female figure was recovered
mutilated at the basin level. |
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| Artefact's
name: Treasure from Gorodnica |
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| Artefact's
name: Spondylus from Kleinhadersdorf |
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| Artefact's
name: Antropomorphic weight |
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| Object type:
Human figurine |
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| Oval shape, ellipsoidal base, shaft hole in the upper
part. |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| Sphere-like bottom part and high cylindrical neck. |
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| Artefact's
name: Plate with incises and signs |
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| Object type:
Vessel/Anphora |
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| In the shape of shallow small vessel. |
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