The Berekhat Ram figurine: a late Acheulian carving from the Middle East

• Autores: Alexander Marshack
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 71, Nº 272, 1997, págs. 327-337
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The human capacity for recognizing categorical forms and their defining characterstics extends to a recognition of natural forms and shapes that may suggest these categories. The issue is raised below by the analysis of an archaic figure from the Levant in which a natural form was apparently intentionally modified to produce an enhanced human image.