Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual: A Case Study from Marj Rabba, Israel
Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2016
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2016, Issue: 376, Pages: 7-27 |
RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa |
Further subjects: | B
Gazelles
B Liminality B Gazelle B Ritual B Archaeologists B Copper age B zooarchaeology B Levant B Chalcolithic |
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