Prehistoric Egypt

Rethinking ‘Cattle Cults’ in Early Egypt: Towards a Prehistoric Perspective on the Narmer Palette

David Wengrow Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 11 / Issue 01 / April 2001, pp 91 ­ 104 DOI: 10.1017/S0959774301000051, Published online: 05 September 2001 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0959774301000051 How to cite this article: David Wengrow (2001). Rethinking ‘Cattle Cults’ in Early Egypt: Towards a Prehistoric Perspective on the Narmer Palette. Cambrid...

Late Prehistoric Southwest

examining the role of glaze \vare pottery in the social lives of the late precontact and early contact Pueblos. By tracing the circulation of spe­ cialized knowledge, raw materials, and the glaze-painted pots themselves, through interactive networks ofvarying sizes and scales, these researchers reveal how glaze ware production, distribution, and use articulated with a variety of dynamic histori...

A Prehistoric Revolution

Symbolism in prehistoric man.

The aptitude for symbolization, characteristic of man, is revealed not only in artistic representations and funerary practices. It is exhibited by every manifestation of human activity or representation of natural phenomena that assumes or refers to a meaning. We can recognize functional symbolism (tool-making, habitative or food technology), social symbolism, (language and social communication...

Prehistoric Archreology in Ceylon