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Cucuteni Figurines (Romania)

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Cucuteni Figurines (Romania). © Marius Amarie via archaeology.org.

The maximal extent of settlements associated with the Cucuteni-Tripol'ye archaeological complex during all periods (c. 4800-3000 BC). Also shown are modern provincial borders, illustrating how the territory covers all of Moldova plus parts of Ukraine and Romania. Original description by uploader: "It is drawn from a n=2600 dataset of Cucuteni-Tripol'ye sites, identical to the data shown in the maps published in Manzura 2005 ("Steps to the Steppe"), if you'd like to read an article that addresses some of these large-scale spatial issues." Igor Manzura, “Steps to the Steppe: Or, How the North Pontic Region was Colonized,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology XXIv.4 (2005), pp. 313–338. CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons.

The maximal extent of settlements associated with the Cucuteni-Tripol’ye archaeological complex during all periods (c. 4800-3000 BC).
Also shown are modern provincial borders, illustrating how the territory covers all of Moldova plus parts of Ukraine and Romania. Original description by uploader: “It is drawn from a n=2600 dataset of Cucuteni-Tripol’ye sites, identical to the data shown in the maps published in Manzura 2005 (“Steps to the Steppe”), if you’d like to read an article that addresses some of these large-scale spatial issues.”
Igor Manzura, “Steps to the Steppe: Or, How the North Pontic Region was Colonized,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology XXIv.4 (2005), pp. 313–338. CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons.

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They, and many other figurines like them—such as the one pictured at right—were made by a people we know today as the Cucuteni culture, which lasted from 4800 to 3000 B.C. in what is now Romania and Ukraine. Some scholars have interpreted these lines as representations of body modification. “They could be tattoos,” says San Francisco State University archaeologist Douglass W. Bailey. “Some say they are clothes, or they could represent something else we don’t understand. We will never know for sure, but in a sense, that’s unimportant. What’s important is that they were using the surface of their bodies to communicate ideas, whether they related to membership in a group or individual identity.”

This 722-page manography has a lot of information on the Cucuteni culture. Statuette pictures begin at page 610. Their “heads” have either one or two pairs of “eyes”, and they can be small or big in relation to the body.

  • M. Petrescu-Dîmboviţa and M. C. Văleanu, Cucuteni-Ceţăţuie : săpăturile din anii 1961-1966 : monografie arheologică, Piatra Neamţ Ed. Consantin Matasă.
    [Bibtex] 
    @Book{2004PetrescuDimbovitaMValeanuMCCucuteniCetatuie9737777018,
  author     = {Petrescu-Dîmboviţa, Mircea and Văleanu, Mădălin Cornel},
  title      = {Cucuteni-Ceţăţuie : săpăturile din anii 1961-1966 : monografie arheologică},
  date       = {2004},
  publisher  = {Piatra Neamţ Ed. Consantin Matasă},
  url        = {http://archive.org/details/2004PetrescuDimbovitaM.ValeanuM.C.CucuteniCetatuie9737777018},
  urldate    = {2016-08-03},
  abstract   = {Book about eponim settlement of Cucuteni Culture; Zsfassung in franz. Sprache},
  file       = {2004PetrescuDimbovitaMValeanuMCCucuteniCetatuie9737777018.pdf:media/trismegisto/Vitamin/Documents/Bibliography/2004PetrescuDimbovitaMValeanuMCCucuteniCetatuie9737777018.pdf:PDF},
  keywords   = {Cucuteni Culture},
  owner      = {trismegisto},
  rights     = {http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/},
  shorttitle = {Cucuteni-Ceţăţuie},
  timestamp  = {2016-08-03},
}

The head seems somewhat familiar:

Cucuteni culture is a Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture which existed from approximately 4800 to 3000 BC from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dniester and Dnieper regions in modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Cucuteni culture is a Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture which existed from approximately 4800 to 3000 BC from the Carpathian Mountains to the Dniester and Dnieper regions in modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Neolithic ceramic female figurine Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, ca. 5500-2750 BCE, Piatra Neamt Museum. da0fbdfd8674f77a880c8c48e330bba6
Neolithic ceramic female figurine Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, ca. 5500-2750 BCE, Piatra Neamt Museum. Via ljspillowbook.tumblr.com.
Cucuteni - Romania - 4500-4400 BC d70bfa68080024a60a9280fc5acb64b6
Cucuteni - Romania - 4500-4400 BC. Via atil.pagesperso-orange.fr.
Cucuteni - Romania cf4b0397c169b700bf014c88366aead7
Cucuteni - Romania - 4500-4400 BC. Via atil.pagesperso-orange.fr.
Terracotta statuette of woman with bird face. Late Cypriot II, probably of Syrian origin
Terracotta statuette of woman with bird face. OASC The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date: ca. 1450–1200 B.C. Culture: Cypriot. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 173. This figurine is typical of Cypriot coroplastic art of the Late Cypriot II and III periods. The type, with the pubic triangle accentuated and the breasts clearly shown, is likely of Syrian origin, but Cypriot sculptors created their own variations. Handmade and hollow, it has a shaved surface. Her eyes are pellets surrounded by rings. In each large flat ear are two perforations, each containing an earring; the lower ones have overlapping terminals. The infant stretches out its arms and has depressed circles for its eyes.
Bird-Headed Figure Whistle, 8th–9th century Mexico, Veracruz Ceramic. f2b3cf19ebae84cc92c69222e432da22
Bird-Headed Figure Whistle, 8th–9th century Mexico, Veracruz Ceramic. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Early–Middle Bronze Age Figurine from Syria. f6f596681b116538db939f5819511473
Early–Middle Bronze Age Figurine from Syria. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provenance: Formerly collection of the Comtesse de Fontmarin; acquired by the Museum in 1955, purchased from Mrs. Jacques Lindon, New York. Period: Early–Middle Bronze Age Date: ca. 2200–1750 B.C. Geography: Syria Medium: Ceramic Dimensions: 3.75 x 2.06 in. (9.53 x 5.23 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1955 Accession Number: 55.188
Jomon goddess figure fbc2a4bcbee4954b53b191a29632c5f9
Jomon goddess figure (Japan's Jomon era: 14,000 BC to about 300 BC). Via yamagata-museum.jp.
Deep Vessel with Handles, Japan, Middle Jomon period (ca. 3500–2500 B.C.) eb9a9febf14f932deb2e62f0ab1c14b6
Deep Vessel with Handles, Japan, Middle Jomon period (ca. 3500–2500 B.C.) Earthenware with carved and incised decoration; Gr. H. 13 in. (33 cm); Gr. W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Diam. at mouth 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975 (1975.268.183) OASC metmuseum.org.
Deep clay pot. Jomon period. Nagano Japan. BC.3,500 – BC.2,500. 82aa26f447774ad75465728c8308bfe7
Deep clay pot. Jomon period. Nagano Japan. BC.3,500 – BC.2,500.
Dogu which is flat like a board. Jomon-era. Iwate Japan. BC.1,200 – BC.800. 92480cd83d5743e55dd0cc721f58c6ca
Dogu which is flat like a board. Jomon-era. Iwate Japan. BC.1,200 – BC.800.

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