‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic

This paper explores the relations between humans and animals through material culture, or more specifically, four-footed vessels also called rhyta (sing. rhyton). I want to suggest that rhyta are not merely artistic representations of something or some kind of cult paraphernalia, but that they embod...

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Main Author: Dimitrij Mlekuž
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2007-12-01
Series:Documenta Praehistorica
Subjects:
art
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2095

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