Estelle Orrelle

Biographic Data

ID643602
NAMEEstelle Orrelle
GIVEN NAMESEstelle
FAMILY NAMEOrrelle
SIGNATUREORRELLE E
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Copper crowns from the Nahal Mishmar Cave

    Estelle OrrelleARTICLEJournal of the Israel Prehistoric…2025

    Estelle Orrelle, אסטל אוראל, أستيل أورئيل, Copper crowns from the Nahal Mishmar Cave - כתרי נחושת ממערת נחל משמר, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ה (2025), pp. 157-170

  • Identifying iconographic evidence for a mushroom cult in the preliterate Southern Levant

    Estelle OrrelleARTICLETime and Mind2022

  • Acts of Neolithic ritualization associated with Levantine bovine figurines

    Estelle Orrelle, L K HorwitzARTICLETime and Mind2018References: 29

    This paper investigates a corpus of Neolithic clay bovine figurines recovered from archaeological sites in the Central and Southern Levant. Despite numerous investigations, their function as utilitarian versus ritual objects is still unclear. In order to assess this issue, the depositional contexts and physical characteristics of just over 500 figurines were examined. The results reveal formalized and repetitive contextual data for the majority o…

  • The pre-iconography, iconography and iconology of a sixth to fifth millennium BC Near Eastern incised bone

    Estelle Orrelle, L K HorwitzARTICLETime and Mind2016

    The motifs appearing on an incised bone artifact retrieved from the underwater site of Neve-Yam, dating to the sixth–fifth millennium BC and associated with the Pottery Neolithic/early Chalcolithic, Wadi Rabah culture, are subjected to systematic analysis using a methodology for research into symbolic subjects which tracks iconographic survival, focusing on the fusion and renewal of symbols. Mythical and historical evidence is assembled and asses…

  • Coffee Beans, Cowries and Vulvas

    Open AccessAvi Gopher, Estelle OrrelleARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal1999Cited by: 1References: 4

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  • An Alternative Interpretation for the Material Imagery of the Yarmukian, a Neolithic Culture of the Sixth Millennium BC in the Southern Levant

    Open AccessAvi Gopher, Estelle OrrelleARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal1996Cited by: 11References: 28

    This study describes material imagery portraying anthropomorphic subjects executed in stone and clay which appear on sites of the Yarmukian culture in the Southern Levant during the sixth millennium BC. Speculations are made and interpretations offered for the incised stone and clay images of persons and genitals as artefacts recording encoded information. It is suggested that some kinds of imagery are associated with age and reproductive status …

  • Preliminary Report on Excavations of Nahal Zehora II — Seasons of 1990 and 1991

    Abraham [Avi] Gopher, Abraham Avi Gopher et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Israel Prehistoric…1991

    AVI GOPHER, ESTELLE ORRELLE, Preliminary Report on Excavations of Nahal Zehora II — Seasons of 1990 and 1991, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ד (תשנ"א / 1991), pp. 169-172

  • A Preliminary Note on The Flint Industry of Nahal Zehora I

    Estelle Orrelle, Abraham [Avi] Gopher et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Israel Prehistoric…1989

  • The Flint Industry of Naḥal Zehora I, a Wadi Raba Site in the Menashe Hills

    Avi Gopher, Estelle OrrelleARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…1989

    This article analyzes the flint assemblage from Naḥal Zehora I, a single-component site containing pottery identified as "Wadi Raba." Technological and typological characteristics are quantitatively described and attention is drawn to the presence of the "old-new" chamfered pieces. By comparison with other assemblages, a mid-fifth millennium B. C. date is suggested for this assemblage