Subtitle:

Das Band und die Schnur. Das Ornament an der neolithischen Gefäßkeramik in der Perspektive der indoeuropäischen Tradition ; Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 46 (1998)

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Description:

29 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

In prehistoriography exists opinion that the band and cord ornamentations, which apper on the neolithic pottery, are the imitation the technique of making organic wares. Moreover, such ornamentation is considered as decorative addition to the pot and because of that is being examined as separate fact of culture. Aesthetic and Indo-European studies allows to questionthat opinion. Decoration on neolithic pottery could have connection with the magic practice of plaiting knots. In the Indo-European tradition ritual use of cord and plaitwork was connected with the presence of the power which safeguarded constancy and continuity of existence, from the point of view the man who thinks in magic way, decoration of pottery was not asymbolic action. Ornamentation could not have been a sign of artistic acting. Ornamentation was the medium for real presence magic properties, which were attributed to the knots. As the result the pot occured as the object with the special sanction

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

46

Start page:

23

End page:

36

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:60391 ; 0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

ger

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open