Conference participants ....................................... vii
Figures ........................................................ ix
Tables ....................................................... xiii
Acknowledgements .............................................. xiv
Prologue ....................................................... xv
Colin Renfrew
Material Beginnings: an Introduction to Image and
Imagination .................................................. xvii
Iain Morley
Section A Representing the Global Record
Chapter 1 The Earliest Imagery Around the Globe ................ 3
Paul G. Bahn
Chapter 2 Monuments and Miniatures: Representing Humans in
Neolithic Europe 5000-2000 вс ....................... 17
Chris Scarre
Chapter 3 Modes of Explanation for Prehistoric Imagery:
Juggling Universalist, Historicist, and
Contextualist Approaches in the Study of Early
Figurines ........................................... 31
Richard G. Lesure
Section В Avenues of Interpretation
Chapter 4 Art, Language and the Evolution of Spirituality ..... 49
Robert Layton
Chapter 5 Upper Palaeolithic Anthropomorph Images of
Northern Eurasia .................................... 57
Jiří Svoboda
Chapter 6 New Questions of Old Hands: Outlines of Human
Representation in the Palaeolithic .................. 69
Iain Morley
Chapter 7 Images of Animality: Hybrid Bodies and Mimesis in
Early Prehistoric Art ............................... 83
Dušan Borić
Chapter 8 Figurines, Meaning and Meaning-Making in Early
Mesoamerica ........................................ 101
Rosemary A. Joyce
Chapter 9 The Anti-rhetorical Power of Representational
Absence: Incomplete Figurines from the Balkan
Neolithic .......................................... 111
Douglass W. Bailey
Chapter 10 Monumentality and Presence ......................... 121
Colin Renfrew
Section С Figurines, Social Context and Process
Chapter 11 Refiguring the Corpus at Çatalhöyük ................ 137
Lynn Meskell
Chapter 12 The Splendour of Women: Late Neolithic Images
from Central Anatolia .............................. 151
Mary M. Voigt
Chapter 13 The Chaîne Opératoire Approach to Prehistoric
Figurines: an Example from Dolnoslav, Bulgaria ..... 171
Bisserka Gaydarska, John Chapman, Ana Raduncheva
& Bistra Koleva
Chapter 14 The Emergence of Anthropomorphic Representation
in the Japanese Archipelago: a Social Systemic
Perspective ........................................ 185
Koji Mizoguchi
Section D Representation, Regions and Power
Chapter 15 Abstract and Figurative Representation and the
Politics of Display in Neolithic Southeast Italy ... 199
Robin Skeates
Chapter 16 Imagery and Social Relationships: Shifting
Identity and Ambiguity in the Neolithic ............ 211
Ian Kuijt & Meredith S. Chesson
Chapter 17 Bodies of Evidence: the Case Against the
'Harappan' Mother Goddess .......................... 227
Sharri R. Clark
Chapter 18 The Emergence of Figuration in Prehistoric Peru .... 241
Richard L. Burger
Chapter 19 Early Figuration in Northwest Argentina:
Materiality Iconography, and the Uses of Imagery ... 255
Elizabeth DeMarrais
Chapter 20 Early Figurations in China: Ideological, Social
and Ecological Implications ........................ 271
Li Liu
Section E Refiguring Perceptions of Perception
Chapter 21 Before and Beyond Representation: Towards an
Enactive Conception of the Palaeolithic Image ...... 287
Lambros Malafouris
Chapter 22 A Note on Representations and Archaeology:
Evolution and Interpretation ....................... 301
Evangelos Kyriakidis
Chapter 23 Neuroarchaeology and the Origins of
Representation in the Grotte de Chauvet ............ 307
John Onians
Section F Relating Representation and Religion
Chapter 24 The Worship and Destruction of Images .............. 323
Robert A. Hinde
Chapter 25 Images and the Biological Origins of Religion ...... 333
Donald M. Broom
Chapter 26 Incorporating Figuration and Spirituality .......... 337
F. LeRon Shults
Topographical Index ........................................... 441
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