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The hunter, the stag, and the mother of animals : image, monument, and landscape in ancient North Asia /

"Jacobson-Tepfer explores the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia, centering her argument on a female deity and her evolution until the early Iron Age"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson-Tepfer, Esther, 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Asia.
Religion, Prehistoric > Asia.
Deer > Symbolic aspects > Asia > History > To 1500.
Goddesses, Asian > History > To 1500.
Liminality > Asia > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
Social change > Asia > History > To 1500.
Social archaeology > Asia.
Landscape archaeology > Asia.
Asia > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • The transformation of image, object and belief in prehistoric North Asia
  • The appearance of the animal mother
  • The persistence of liminal beings
  • The mother of animals
  • Intimations of death and transformation
  • The end of naturalism in nomadic art
  • The pivot between life and death
  • Traces of ancient beliefs
  • The archaeology of belief.