Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture
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As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled into villages, religious ceremonies involving dancing became their primary means for bonding individuals into communities and households into villages. So important was dance that scenes of dancing are among the oldest and most persistent themes in Near Eastern prehistoric art, and these depictions of dance accompanied the spread...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:029272845X
ISBN13:9780292728455
Release Date:June 2003
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:346 Pages
Weight:2.17 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.3" x 10.5"
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