Animal Iconography in the Archaeological Record

Laerke Recht is an archaeologist at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (Affiliated Scholar, former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow). Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska is an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

1. Introduction: The Third Dimension and Animal Iconography in Archaeology
Laerke Recht and Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska

2. Zoomorphic Terracotta Figurines in Halaf Culture and New Evidence of Secondary Products Exploitation in the 6th Millennium BC in Northern Mesopotamia
Nicola Scheyhing, PhD Candidate, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

3. Neolithic Vessels with Animal Characteristics: Modifications of Material Corporeal Signs, Negotiations of Clay Bodyscapes
Evangelia Voulgari, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

4. The Minoan Monkey: Ties between the Aegean and Indus River Valley via Mesopotamia
Marie Nicole Pareja, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Millersville University and Pennsylvania State University

5. How Many Tentacles? Octo-pus and x-pus in the Greek Bronze Age: A New Archaeozoological Approach
Lucia Alberti, National Research Council of Italy, and Giambattista Bello, University of Bari (retired)

6. Bird-shaped Vessels of Bronze Age Cyprus as Three-dimensional Objects
Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska

7. ‘Flying Gallop’ Iconography and its Representations in the Burial Rites of the Eurasian Bronze Age
Emma Usmanova, Saryarka Archaeological Institute. Buketov Karaganda State University (Kazakhstan), Olga Gumirova, journalist, and Igor Chechushkov, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

8. The Role of the Horse in Ancient Egyptian: In Society and Imagery
Lonneke Delpeut, PhD Candidate, Leiden University

9. Horns as Symbols in Bronze Age Scandinavian Southern Tradition Rock Art
Joanna M. Lawrence, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge

10. Lions and Other Animal Representations Found in Funerary Contexts in Archaic Macedonia
Nathalie del Socorro, Museum of Nogent-sur-Seine in France, University of Nanterre.

11. Buckle up! A Comparison of Ornamental Design on Pazyryk Riding Gear of the Sites Pazyryk-1, Berel’11 and Ak-Alakha-3 in Regards to Supra-regional Exchange during the 3rd Century BC
Anna-Elisa Stümpel, ReMa student, University of Groningen

12. Dogs of Roman Britain: Secular, Sacred or Consumed?
Branka Franicevic, PhD Candidate, University of Bradford

13. Dragons, Griffins and Leucrottas: Supernatural Creatures in the Eastern Baltic
Tõnno Jonuks, Literary Museum in Tartu