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Informationen zum Autor Timothy Insoll is Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge from 1995 until 1998, when he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester. After becoming a Reader in 2004 and being awarded a personal chair in 2005 he moved to the University of Exeter in 2016. He is the author or editor of 16 books, three special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews on a wide range of research topics across the discipline of archaeology, and has completed fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Introduction 1: Miniature Possibilities: An Introduction to the Varied Dimensions of Figurine Research 2: Lynn Meskell: The Archaeology of Figurines and the Human Body in Prehistory 3: Richard G. Lesure: Comparative Perspectives in the Interpretation of Prehistoric Figurines Part 2. Africa 4: Alice Stevenson: Predynastic Egyptian Figurines 5: Gunnar Haaland and Randi Haaland: Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan 6: Barbara E. Barich: The Sahara 7: Alex Schoeman: Southern Africa 8: Timothy Insoll: West Africa 9: Pierre de Maret: Equatorial Africa Part 3. The Americas 10: Andrzej Antczak and Magdalena Antczak: Caribbean 11: Erin L. Sears: Mesoamerica - Maya 12: Christopher A. Pool: Mesoamerica - Olmec 13: Jeffrey P. Blomster: Mesoamerica - Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines 14: Lisa Overholtzer: Aztec Figurines 15: Polly Schaafsma: North America - Southwest 16: Roy L. Carlson: Figurines and Figural Art of the Northwest Coast 17: William W. Fitzhugh and Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad: Inuguat: Prehistoric Human Figurines in the North American Arctic 18: George F. Lau: South America - Andes 19: Cristiana Barreto: Figurine Traditions from the Amazon Part 4. Asia 20: Ellen Belcher and Karina Croucher: Anatolia 21: Sascha Priewe: Prehistoric Figurines in China: The Deep History of Figurative Imagery in China 22: Sharri R. Clark and J. Mark Kenoyer: South Asia - Indus Civilization 23: Koji Mizoguchi: Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan 24: Ian Kuijt: Clay Ideas: Levantine Neolithic Figurine Trajectories and Intellectual Threads 25: Stuart Campbell and Aurelie Daems: Figurines in Prehistoric Mesopotamia 26: Aurelie Daems: From a Bird's Eye View: Prehistoric Human Figurines from Iran Part 5. Australasia and the Pacific 27: Catherine Orliac and Michel Orliac: Wooden Figurines of Easter Island Part 6. Europe 28: Colin Renfrew: Cycladic Figurines 29: Christine Morris: Minoan and Mycenaean Figurines 30: Rebecca Farbstein: Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe 31: Eszter Bánffy: Neolithic Eastern and Central Europe 32: Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart: Figurines of Malta 33: Daisy Knox: Mediterranean - Cyprus 34: Robin Skeates: Prehistoric Figurines in Italy 35: Isabelle Vella Gregory: Mediterranean - Sardinia 36: Doug Bailey: Southeast Euro...
