G23 - The Neolithic in Art. Iconography and Society in the First World Agricultural Communities of Eurasia.

Session Organisers: Svend Hansen, Ianir Milevski

Category: Symbolism

Session Abstract: In the past 30 years, a hitherto unknown pictorial world of the early Neolithic has become known in Urfa and the wider region. The transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic was not only associated with a fundamental change in the way of life and economy, but also with a media revolution. Life-size sculptures made of stone were an extraordinary craft, artistic and social innovation. The material, themes and size of these sculptures were inextricably linked and represented permanence, masculinity and monumentality. In the further development of the Neolithic, images of humans, but also of certain animals, played an important role in the farming villages. On a larger worldwide scale, the question of whether the paintings and sculptures played a role for all or only part of the peasant societies will be discussed. The Neolithic period worldwide is not only a time in which plant and animal domestication occurred and agricultural societies represented a revolutionary break from hunter-gatherer lifeways. The question is whether the transition to the Neolithic was connected everywhere, not only in Eurasia, with a production of images that were adapted to the achievements of the new mode of production. The aim of this session within the World Neolithic Congress is to evaluate different iconographies and their material culture aspects from Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic bearing communities and evaluate the ideological aspects of art against the background of the socio-economic basis of these communities and vice-versa.

Room: E

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Svend Hansen, Ianir Milevski	Iconography and Society during the Neolithic Revolution. An Introduction
13:15 - 13:30	Svend Hansen	The Media Revolution in the Early Neolithic
13:30 - 13:45	Ali Asker Bal	What Did Art See or Not See in Göbeklitepe?
13:45 - 14:00	Remziye Ercan	Göbeklitepe and Its Reflection on Works of Art
14:00 - 14:15	Michael Morsch	Markers of Subsistence Developments in Neolithic Art? Iconographic and Contextual Studies on the Sculptures of Nevali Cori

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Şeyma Çiftçi	Unique Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Bird Figures in the Upper Tigris Region: New Evidence from Gre Fılla
15:05 - 15:25	Maria De Jesus Sanches And Joana Castro Teixeira	Neolithic Rock and Mobile Art from the North-west Iberia: When are Those Iconographies Shared with Settlements Decorated Pottery?
15:25 - 15:45	Malahat Farajova	Neolithic Period of Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan)
15:45 - 16:05	Lydia Zortkina	“Minusinsk” Style: Neolithic Rock Art from South-Central Siberia

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Sarah Dermech, Eric Coqueugniot	An Attempt to Interpret the Geometric Paintings from Dja’de el-Mughara (Syrai, 9th Mill. Cal. BC)
16:50 - 17:10	Ianir Milevski, Ofer Marder	On Artisans and Artists in the Neolithic Revolution and the Neolithic Iconography of the Levant
17:10 - 17:30	Morag Kersel	Consequences of Attachment to Neolithic Masks in the Southern Levant
17:30 - 17:50	Carlos Vítor Didelet	Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cranial Human Masks from Portugal

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Joanna Pyzel	Turning Left or Turning Right? Temporal and Regional Variability in LBK Pottery Decoration in Europe
10:20 - 10:40	Rebecca Bristow	Turning West: On the Disappearance of Figurative Representations in Neolithic West-Central Europe
10:40 - 11:00	Valeska Becker	Headless Anthropomorphic Representations in the Course of the European Neolithic
11:00 - 11:20	Michael Müller	Neolithic Anthropomorphic Figurines in Chalcolithic Contexts (Romania)

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Julia Luckner	Living Fauna Made of Clay? A Comparison of Animal Bone Findings and Interpretations of Zoomorphic Figurines in Eastern Europe
13:20 - 13:40	Dina Shalem	Continuity and changes in Zoomorphic Clay Figurines from the 7th and 6th Millennia in the Southern Levant
13:40 - 14:00	Arjun Rao	Cattle (Bos indicus): Iconic Animal in the Southern Neolithic Rock Bruisings and Ashmounds with Ethnographic Signatures in India
14:00 - 14:20	Andrey Varenov	Pairs of Deer Engraved on the Neolithic Pottery of China as a Reflection of Social Structure of Ancient Society

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	Goce Naumov	The Neolithic Anthropomorphism and the Domestication of Human Body in the Balkans
15:05 - 15:25	Argyris Fassoulas	Giving Meaning to the Technique: The Socio-cultural Dimension of Figurine-making in Neolithic Aegean
15:25 - 15:45	Stella Katsarou, Adamantios Sampson	Human Representations and Farming Economy. Insights from the Advanced Farming Stage in the Aegean
15:45 - 16:15	All Participants	Discussion