The Earliest Dancing Scenes in the Near East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4888083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Garfinkel (0000-0001-6685-9190, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 84-95 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Near Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3210910 |
| OpenAlex | W2331274259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
How long ago did people begin to dance as a means of expression? After investigating hundreds of prehistoric depictions of dancers from sites from southern Europe to Pakistan and executed in clay, stone and paint, the author concludes that this was indeed a very old and widespread motif. He suggests that dancing as a form of ritual had a particular place in early agricultural societies and that its popularity had much to do with the changing concepts of space and time that were part of the agrarian lifestyle
Aesthetics · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Dance · Geography · Popularity · Prehistory · Visual arts · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies · History · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |