Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: The aesthetics of sexual difference at late bronze age knossos

World Archaeology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-205

  Alberti, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Agency; Bronze Age Aegean; Figurines; Gender; Knossos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937383836     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240120079244     Document Type: Article

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