Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities
Bovine iconography is one of the most important components for understanding social identities among Neolithic Vinča culture communities. It is believed that both wild and domesticated cattle were introduced into Vinča culture symbolic practice as one of the most powerful and profound metaphors of h...
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| description | Bovine iconography is one of the most important components for understanding social identities among Neolithic Vinča culture communities. It is believed that both wild and domesticated cattle were introduced into Vinča culture symbolic practice as one of the most powerful and profound metaphors of human perception of the world. I argue that the use of bovine iconography was socially structured, as was the maintenance of animals, and that the vast corpus of bovine iconography should be considered in terms of actual human-animal relationships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3fdf51c8a12e456f91a1424ed3ffda312023-01-18T09:20:48ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922012-12-013910.4312/dp.39.22Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communitiesMiloš Spasić0Belgrade City Museum, BelgradeBovine iconography is one of the most important components for understanding social identities among Neolithic Vinča culture communities. It is believed that both wild and domesticated cattle were introduced into Vinča culture symbolic practice as one of the most powerful and profound metaphors of human perception of the world. I argue that the use of bovine iconography was socially structured, as was the maintenance of animals, and that the vast corpus of bovine iconography should be considered in terms of actual human-animal relationships.https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1827bovine iconographyVinča culturebucraniafigurineshuman-animal relationshipsymbols |
| spellingShingle | Miloš Spasić Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities Documenta Praehistorica bovine iconography Vinča culture bucrania figurines human-animal relationship symbols |
| title | Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities |
| title_full | Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities |
| title_fullStr | Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities |
| title_short | Cattle to settle – bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities |
| title_sort | cattle to settle bull to rule on bovine iconography among late neolithic vinca culture communities |
| topic | bovine iconography Vinča culture bucrania figurines human-animal relationship symbols |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1827 |
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