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“Playing with the Bull” in the arts of Ancient Eurasia

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The paper studies the artistic representations of humans playing with bulls in Eurasia. It considers Neolithic representations of Chatal-Höyük, as well as Bronze Age Levant, Middle East, Indus (seals), and Central Asia (seal, petroglyphs). The proposed interpretation is related to plays and games with bulls, bull-leaping, tauromachy considered as mock hunts, rather as sports, possibly ritual. Representations occurring inside constructed cultural spaces are especially important in a time of domestications of wild species of bovids. It is suggested that this change is connected with sedentism, with the appearance of narration, and with symbolism in art.
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halshs-03085834, version 1 (22-12-2020)

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H.-P. Francfort. “Playing with the Bull” in the arts of Ancient Eurasia. Vishnjavskij, L. B., Chugunov, K. Measuring Harmony With Algebra. Collected Papers in Memory of Yakov Abramovich Sher, Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The State Hermitage Publishers, pp.240-260, 2021, Measuring Harmony With Algebra. Collected Papers in Memory of Yakov Abramovich Sher. ⟨halshs-03085834⟩
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