Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture

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dancing at the dawn of agriculture THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture yosef garfinkel University of Texas Press, Austin The research was supported by grants from the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Copyright © 2003 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2003 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. ' The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Garfinkel, Yosef. Dancing at the dawn of agriculture / Yosef Garfinkel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-292-72845-x (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Art, Prehistoric—Mediterranean Region. 2. Art, Prehistoric—Middle East. 3. Dance in art. 4. Dance, Prehistoric—Mediterranean Region. 5. Dance, Prehistoric—Middle East. 6. Agriculture, Prehistoric—Mediterranean Region. 7. Agriculture, Prehistoric—Middle East. 8. Mediterranean Region—Antiquities. 9. Middle East—Antiquities. I. Title. gn848 .g37 2003 709´.01´12091822—dc21 2002009359 To Tal figure 0.1 Dance shadows, Tel Miqne-Eqron Excavations 1996 Photo by Irene Pletka. ...