Daughters of the Sun: Small Human Images in Megalithic Iberia, 4th-3rd Millennium BC

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements – Margarita Sánchez Romero

Foreword – António Carvalho

Preface – Primitiva Bueno Ramírez and Jorge A. Soler Díaz

Presentation 

Chapter 1. The Figurines of Late Iberian Prehistory

Chapter 2. Thought and Practice for a State of Art of Human Figurines in Iberia 

Chapter 3. Women’s Bodies in Portable Art from the Palaeolithic to Late Prehistory in Europe

Chapter 4. Typologies as a Product of Iberian Historiography in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century

Chapter 5. Human Shapes for Social Research

Chapter 6. Progress in the Knowledge of Geometric Shapes In the Iberian Figurines

Chapter 7. Anthropomorphic Expression in Clay

Chapter 8. Anthropomorphic Figurines from Southwest Iberia

Chapter 9. Summary of Human Geometry and Ideomorphus Portable Objects

Chapter 10. Crafts, Workshops and Functionalities

Chapter 11. Geographies and Contexts of Figurines in Late Iberian Prehistory

Chapter 12. People and Small Human Bodies

Chapter 13. Combining Human Images. Figurines in the Iberian Post-Glacial Art

Chapter 14. The Daughters of the Sun, Testimony of the Social Relations and Connectivities in Late Iberian Prehistory

Chapter 15. An Exceptional Legacy 

Bibliography

About the Author

Primitiva Bueno Ramírez, Professor of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá, is a specialist in megaliths. She has field experience in Europe’s most emblematic monuments, where the performance of death included decorated walls, coloured corpses, steles, statues and menhirs, as well as figurines. She has taken an interest in reconstructing these processes beyond architectural typologies, to provide evidence on identity, gender, provenance, burial garments and shared iconographies on both a small and large scale.

Jorge A. Soler Diaz is the director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Alicante. As coordinator of major exhibitions at the Archaeological Museum of Alicante, he has participated in projects with museums in Asia, Europe and America. He is specialist in late prehistoric collective burials in the caves of the region, from which he has studied collections of decorated long bones, interpreting them as ideological systems for the establishment of social pacts.