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Inspired individuals and charismatic leaders
- Source :
- Documenta Praehistorica, Vol 51 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani), 2024.
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Abstract
- Recent fieldwork at Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) Göbeklitepe has revealed a life-size limestone statue of a wild boar in Special Building D, which, alongside discoveries from nearby contemporaneous sites, broadens our understanding of late hunter-forager communities, including the presence of (archaeologically speaking) invisible decision-makers. Evidence points to three groups from which these charismatic leaders could have emerged: storytellers, hunters and ritual experts. An important function of these leaders was to uphold traditional values in the face of changing lifeways in the Early Holocene, a period referred to here as the ‘hunter-gatherer crisis’. This paper also includes a summary of recent excavation results from Göbeklitepe.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1408967X and 18542492
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Documenta Praehistorica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.59b5eca4dfa54344a9dbdcc4438f861f
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.51.16