Prehistoric human images have fascinated archaeological, anthropological and social researchers for many generations. They are known from the Upper Palaeolithic, but in the Neolithic their number increased significantly, forming part of the archaeological record throughout Europe. In Iberia, especially in the south, thousands of figurines have been preserved. These are small human figures of men, women, boys and girls, with female images predominating in funerary and domestic contexts.
This volume brings us closer to the current state of knowledge in Iberia, from romantic archaeology to processual and post-processual archaeology. The book explores the number, geographical spread and extended chronology of the figurines – from the 6th to the 3rd millennium BC – and the social practices that lay behind their production and use. From goddesses to women, this exceptional legacy indicates an unprecedented role for women in these societies. The figurines illuminate the representation of identity, its chronological depth, the existence of workshops and distribution circuits, and the continued manipulation of these pieces over generations.
H 290 x W 205 mm
334 pages
146 figures, 2 tables (colour throughout)
Published Nov 2025
ISBN
Hardback: 9781805831372
Digital: 9781805831389
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements – Margarita Sánchez Romero
Foreword – António Carvalho
Preface – Primitiva Bueno Ramírez and Jorge A. Soler Díaz
Presentation
Chapter 1. The Figurines of Late Iberian Prehistory
Chapter 2. Thought and Practice for a State of Art of Human Figurines in Iberia
Chapter 3. Women’s Bodies in Portable Art from the Palaeolithic to Late Prehistory in Europe
Chapter 4. Typologies as a Product of Iberian Historiography in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century
Chapter 5. Human Shapes for Social Research
Chapter 6. Progress in the Knowledge of Geometric Shapes In the Iberian Figurines
Chapter 7. Anthropomorphic Expression in Clay
Chapter 8. Anthropomorphic Figurines from Southwest Iberia
Chapter 9. Summary of Human Geometry and Ideomorphus Portable Objects
Chapter 10. Crafts, Workshops and Functionalities
Chapter 11. Geographies and Contexts of Figurines in Late Iberian Prehistory
Chapter 12. People and Small Human Bodies
Chapter 13. Combining Human Images. Figurines in the Iberian Post-Glacial Art
Chapter 14. The Daughters of the Sun, Testimony of the Social Relations and Connectivities in Late Iberian Prehistory
Chapter 15. An Exceptional Legacy
Bibliography
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