Back to Search
Start Over
Early Neolithic imagery in flux
- Source :
- Documenta Praehistorica, Vol 50 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani), 2023.
-
Abstract
- Stone is often regarded as the ideal medium for the long-term preservation of knowledge, as it is resistant to change. Early to middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has repeatedly been treated as a prime example for such external memorial storage in durable stone. The present paper challenges this view. A close examination of pillars and their reliefs in Building F reveals the fluid character of imagery with repeated and frequent phases of erasure and re-making. It is argued that it is not the durability of stone that made it suitable for the preservation of ‘cultural memory’, but the possibility to re-shape the image carriers continuously over a long period of time, which resulted in processes of transmission, learning and memorization.
- Subjects :
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Göbekli Tepe
pillars
reliefs
Archaeology
CC1-960
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1408967X and 18542492
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Documenta Praehistorica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.41d89c5cd544497ca9f5ca8fae4f075a
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.50.11