The nature of the beast: Curating animals and ancestors at Catalhoyuk

World Archaeology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-389

  Meskell, Lynn ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animality; Embedding; Enfleshing; Figurines; Headedness; Materiality; Neolithic Catalhoyuk

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL HISTORY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MATERIAL CULTURE; NEOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 49549105835     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240802261416     Document Type: Article

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